Michael Curry

Declining organizations are always looking backward. Ascending ones are always looking forward.

Nothing is promised. There is someone that you love whom you haven't spoken to in a while. Contact them. Life is precious. The people in our lives make this life worth living. Love and respect.

I believe that if you hold strong personal beliefs that you feel others could benefit from, your job is not to convince anyone of those beliefs. Your job is to live a life that demonstrates the benefits of those beliefs. Showing is more convincing than telling.

“Great companies, charities and nations were built by groups of individuals who each vastly overestimated their own autonomy. As an ambitious executive, it’s important that you believe that you will deserve credit for everything you achieve. As a human being, it’s important for you to know that’s nonsense." -- David Brooks

If you are worrying about something that you cannot control, you are wasting precious time.

It takes just as much time to watch and comment on how others live their lives as it does to simply live our lives as best we can. Life doesn't come with a manual. We are all figuring it out as we go along. Sometimes life is hard on the boulevard..

"Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you." - Saint Augustine

"If you really want to do something you'll find a way.. If you don't, you'll find an excuse." Unknown

"Most of the embarrassing moments of my life happened when I wanted to say no, but ended up saying yes (or saying nothing at all). Most of the missed opportunities in my life happened when I wanted to say yes, but ended up saying no (or saying nothing at all)." - James Clear

If you cannot ease another's burden, please try not to add to it. Be safe. Be blessed.

It is much easier to change how you think by changing your behavior, than it is to change your behavior by changing how you think. Act out the change you seek. Be safe. Be blessed.

Doing the right things is more important than doing things right. Be safe. Be blessed.

At any given moment in life, you are doing one of ONLY two things: Building yourself up OR destroying yourself. Here's a hint: Building is often disguised as struggle, hard work and sacrifice. Destruction hides behind instant gratification, cut corners and "ends justifies the means" thinking.

"The point of life is not to seek pleasure. It is to find meaning. When people can't find meaning, they numb themselves with pleasure." - Donald Miller

"Expectations, not outcomes, govern the happiness of your perceived reality." -David Heinemeier Hansson

The less energy we spend defending our value, the more our energy we free up to learn, grow, and add value in the world.

People cannot steal your joy. You actually have to forfeit it yourself. You deserve joy. Choose wisely.

Until to accept your reality, there is no opportunity to change your reality. Turning a blind eye to reality does not change reality. It exacerbates it.

"Many people with jobs have a fantasy about all the amazing things they would do if they didn’t need to work. In reality, if they had the drive and commitment to actually do those things, they wouldn’t let a job get in the way." -Paul Buchheit (creator of G-mail)

There are facts. And then there are the stories we tell ourselves about what those facts mean. It is the stories (not the facts themselves) that are the cause of our suffering. You may not be able to change the facts, but you can change the story. New day. New story.