My Riffs

If you learn to live grateful you can endure the ups and downs of life. Being grateful will carry you when being happy cannot. 

Stepping on someone doesn’t get you higher like you may think. It actually takes you lower. The way to get higher is to actually get lower and raise people up. 

You can get better or bitter. The choice is yours. There’s far too many bitter people, get better. Getting bitter doesn’t help anyone. 

If it's true, say it. If you're unsure of it, don't say it.

End well. Beginning are important. Getting off on the right foot is important. But ending well is more important. 

Flowers. Butterfly's. Trees. Diamonds. Pearls.  They don't have beautiful beginnings, but they end up beautiful. They all have to go through some form of challenging transformation to get beautiful. It's the process that can make everyone better and beautiful.

Blessed are the peacemakers. You can stoke fires of conflict or you can put wet blankets on them. Peacemakers don't stoke conflict, they bring peace. It takes strength to be a peacemakers. Weak men stoke conflict.

Give away love freely and it will return to you. It may not return in the same form as you gave it but it will return to you. 

Enjoy life. Enjoy the ups and the downs. There’s things to gain when things are good and bad both. So enjoy all aspects of life. 

Don’t just get through life. Live life. The first is a backseat mindset. The latter is getting into the drivers seat and taking control of life. 

Dream on. People say it as an insult, but it should be said as encouragement. Dream on! Don't stop dreaming. Dreamers dream dreams that maybe they can't always accomplish, but maybe they can and will. Or maybe someone else will. If someone doesn't dream, nothing great will ever happen. So dream on!

Trust is fragile unfortunately. It takes a long time to build and can be broken in an instant. People who have had trust broken run into trust issues. It takes time for them to ever trust anyone again. People who break trust can hardly be trusted again. Trust is the most fundamental currency we have, it must be handled with extreme care.

We dwell too much on the negative. That takes away from the time we could be reinforcing the good. Pointing out the bad or negative accomplishes little. But reinforcing the good accomplished a lot. 

If you can see it in your head you can likely see it in reality. Visualizing makes realizing more probable. Visualize your successes. Visualize your ideas. If you dream it, you can see it.

The things we see may not be the most real. The most real things may not been immediately seen. We all put on our best faces and people may not see what we’re really dealing with. The most real things are unseen like Love, and our spirits and our character. 

Your network is truly your net worth. Our value is tied to others. On our own our net worth drastically falls. But together everyone is much more wealthy. So network and see your net worth grow.

People can tell when you don’t mean it. Which means people pick up on what you really think more than what you say. So say what you mean.

Structure is necessary. Things falls apart without structure, but too much structure slows down things so they don't get done. Have structure but allow for things to develop outside that structure.

What can lift like nothing else? Love. Nothing can lift us like love can. Spread love and lift some people. 

There’s always purpose in pain. Nobody looks for pain, but most look for purpose. And purpose is always in the midst of pain. 

It doesn't always take something dramatic to get past a hang up. Usually a few small very repeatable healthy habits can take us past something that's been hanging us up. 

If you can name it, you can claim it. That's why it's important to name things we need to address. If you can't name it, you can't deal with it. So name it and claim it, both for the good and the bad. Name and claim the good things in your life. Name and claim victory over the things that are bringing you down.

Question everything because it could be wrong information. Don't become someone who doesn't believe anything, but make sure you don't just accept anything you're told. There's a whole lot of wrong information out there that may seem factual. Question it and find the truth.

You'd think the more you know, the less there is to know. But somehow it doesn't work like that. The more you know and learn, the more you realize you don't know and you realize how much you have to learn. The world is so vast, so intricate and so complex. Once you get one layer deep you realize there's more layers then you could have imagined. If someone knows it all, they likely haven't discovered how much there truly is to know.

Routine is necessary but variety is just as necessary. If everything stays the same outcomes stay the same or get worse. Variety changes outcomes. 

Tomorrow is Independence Day in the US. Freedom is hardly free. Freedom costs a lot. If you don’t value freedom you will lose it.  

Prioritize your health. Because an unhealthy person can’t be of help to others. It’s not selfish to prioritize your health. It’s beneficial to everyone to be healthy. 

We put off starting. There’s always a reason to start later. But we should start now. Time is of the essence. Stop putting off what can be done today.