The Inner Drummer
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose
and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the
commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. ~Cecil Beaton
THE INNER DRUMMER
X(yz+1): I’m a drummer, writer, lifelong music lover, occasional philosopher, health and fitness enthusiast, news junkie, and incurable storyteller. Music is high on my list, but I also need a place to share all my other interests. Remember, I’m the guy playing in a band with four imaginary musicians. I got a lot of shit in my head. Welcome to my corner...
MY LIFE 2.0: Another one of my favorites. Enjoy…
MAKE TODAY A POSITIVE ONE:
- The older I get, the more I realize that life has seasons. And not every season needs to be your best one. Some seasons are for building. Some are for healing. Some are for just surviving. You don’t have to win every single chapter for the whole story to turn out well. ~Sahil Bloom
- Folks really needs to start repeating “I have agency” to themselves. More than anything internalizing that message will shift the direction of your life, the lives of your children, and the direction of this country. ~Bridget Phetasy
- You lose respect for yourself when you repeatedly watch yourself choose relief over standards. The damage is not only the behavior. Your brain starts updating its prediction of who you are: “When things get hard, I fold.” Reversing that prediction requires new evidence, not better affirmations. ~Leo | Phalanx Labs
- Everyone around you is getting exactly what they want out of life. most are just betraying their true selves, believing they want something more for themselves, while their actions indicate something completely different from what they are saying. ~Boss
THE MOMENT YOU DECIDE, EVERYTHING CHANGES:
- Your self-control gets weaker when every promise you make to yourself gets broken. The brain learns from evidence, not affirmations. Miss enough commitments and “I’ll do it tomorrow” stops carrying psychological weight. Rebuilding discipline starts with making smaller promises you can actually keep until your nervous system begins trusting your own instructions again. ~Leo | Phalanx Labs
- Heart Rate Variability (HRV) is one of the best windows into your resilience. Higher HRV generally reflects a stronger parasympathetic response and a more adaptable nervous system. Think of it as a real-time measure of how well your body recovers from life’s demands. ~Frank Lipman MD
- Nobody tells you this: You can wake up and decide that’s enough. Enough of the low standards. Enough of the bad habit. Enough of the outdated identity. Enough of whatever. You don’t need some dramatic reason, either. It’s perfectly reasonable to wake up one day, say “this no longer works for me,” and make a change. You can reinvent yourself. Today, tomorrow, and as many times as you need to create the life you want. ~Sahil Bloom
- People massively underestimate what a few focused years actually do. You can build a business. Change your body completely. Move countries. Build a new circle from scratch. Learn a skill that pays you for life. Where you’re standing right now becomes almost irrelevant. The problem is everyone wants the transformation without giving the process enough time to work. ~Dylan Madden
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- If you’re having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn’t you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don’t want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you’ll get a proven system that can take you to new heights. ~Atomic Habits
- Epictetus and Demosthenes to Amelia Earhart and Richard Wright—followed a simple formula to achieve greatness. They were not exceptionally brilliant, lucky, or gifted. Their success in overcoming extreme obstacles was the result of a timeless set of philosophical principles that the greatest men and women have always pursued. ~The Obstacle is the Way
- In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from the philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. ~The 48 Laws of Power
To be continued…
Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. ~Jim Morrison
Common sense, hard blues, liberty, scripture, family, black coffee, healthy bodies,
sharp minds, unyielding spirits, playing drums, making music, aikido,
yellow bikinis, jeeps, reading, and the American way.
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