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Nathan Sutton retweeted
Be the 60% spouse.
The person you marry is one of the most important decisions in your life. You will spend more time with this person than anyone else. You will make decisions together, grow together, and raise children together. If you choose the right person to marry, your life will be filled with happiness and prosperity, but if you choose the wrong person, you will be condemned to a life of unhappiness, drama, and financial problems.
But choosing the right spouse is only half the battle.
A good marriage is not created on your wedding day. It comes from the constant work that you and your spouse do to be a good partner to each other over time. Because the word “partner” gets used often when speaking about marriage, most people think a husband and wife should each bring 50% of the value to the relationship.
A happy marriage isn’t 50/50 though. It is 60/40 with both partners trying to be the 60%.
When you and your spouse are trying to bring the extra effort to the relationship, it is nearly impossible for the marriage to get off course. This is especially important on the hard days when one of you is tired, annoyed, or angry.
My wife and I have seen the benefits of this principle over the years. She constantly looks out for me, tries to predict things I may need in the future, is always ready with a few words of encouragement at the right moment, and does whatever is necessary for our marriage and our family to be successful.
I do my absolute best to return the favor. Sometimes this extra effort can be small things like buying her flowers unexpectedly, surprising her with a date night, or doing a few extra chores around the house. Other times I may help with her professional work or spend time talking with her about the important things going on in her world. Whenever I see an opportunity to do something that will make me the 60% of the relationship, I try to seize it.
And the beauty of our marriage is that she does the same thing.
So my wish for each of you is that you find a spouse that has a similar approach to marriage. But here is the secret: you will only find this person if you first become the type of person who aspires to be the 60% in a relationship. It is this lack of selfishness that will attract the person who is a good partner you can build an amazing life with.
The 60% approach applies to any relationship you are a part of, including business, investing, or your personal life. Those who give the most tend to get the most. It is a powerful law of the universe. But nowhere is it more important than in your marriage.
As you get older, and you have been married for longer, life starts to happen. There is the complexity of managing chaotic schedules, children become more needy, and it is easy to be less intentional about your marriage as you focus on other things.
But don’t fall into this trap.
Be the 60% spouse. Go the extra mile, and you will pick your head up in 50 years and be proud of the incredible relationship you built with the person you love most.
This is an excerpt from my new book, How To Live An Extraordinary Life Volume 2. You can buy a copy of the book here: amazon.com/How-Live-Extraord…
Nathan Sutton retweeted
Content in = content out. If you feed yourself doomerism and defeatist slop all day, don't be surprised when you lose. If you feed the mind heroic and positive content, you WILL win. Stay the course.
NEVER DOOM.
Nathan Sutton retweeted
As some of you may be aware, we will likely be importing more cheap foreign beef in order to cut the cost at the grocery store for the consumers-this is likely a midterm election strategy as people don’t vote for incumbents when food is too expensive
The down stream effect of this is that it will likely cause many American ranchers to go out of business unless additional help is sent their way
In the mean time, if you can afford to do so, please buy directly from ranchers if you can-it might be the difference between them going out of business or surviving to keep on doing what they do the best in the world, producing high quality beef!
Share this if you’d be so kind!
Nathan Sutton retweeted
America is a place, merged with an idea. Americans are those here who agree to this idea. The idea is that anything is possible and that you can live your life the way you want, so long as that way does not impinge on others’ ability to live the way they want.
As the current custodians of America, we will keep this idea sacred, so that it is healthy and alive for those who come after us. Just like those of the past 250 years did for us. Happy 4th of July.
Nathan Sutton retweeted
The Declaration of Independence is the greatest document ever produced by man. It’s no coincidence that it was the founding document of our nation and we went on to be the most prosperous civilization in human history. Any country founded on that document is worth loving and fighting to save.
It is also, undeniably, a radically libertarian document that clearly states the validity of natural God given rights and that the only legitimate role for government is the protection of liberty.
We have serious problems in our country today and we will be much better off if we follow the spirit of our founding document than the brain dead varying socialisms being promoted by both political parties.
Nathan Sutton retweeted
The best thing you can do for fallen soldiers on Memorial Day is to stop voting for politicians who make more of them.
Nathan Sutton retweeted
The Boomers of Kentucky embarrassed the United States on the world stage today.
Around the world, people genuinely wondered: can an American politician survive who doesn't repeat low-IQ platitudes about Israel and the Middle East?
The Boomers -- with their heterodox Christianity and FOX News propaganda -- gave their answer.
Republican politics is dominated by people who for some reason still think Sean Hannity is a smart guy, and Mark Levin is a constitutional scholar.
Pat Buchanan had given them the example of the learned and articulate right-winger -- and Pat was well to the right of Hannity and Levin -- but they decided to go with Tomi Lahren and Dan Bongino instead.
Oh, Massie voted this way or that, people will say, and that's why he was targeted in this unprecedented way. Yet there's Donald Trump out there campaigning for pro-amnesty Mike Lawler. So I don't believe you that this is a question of Massie's voting record (which is stellar, by the way).
Even if Massie had had a handful of objectionable votes, a million times more important than any Massie vote is this principle:
A patriot who values his country's sovereignty cannot allow three socially leftist billionaires who represent a foreign interest to buy a congressional seat and place a ridiculous empty suit in it.
Even if for some reason you don't like Massie, you as a patriot would have to dislike THAT a hundred times more.
These three billionaires never once set foot in Kentucky -- Kentuckians, to them, are lower than dirt, and exist solely to have congressional seats bought from them.
Put up a nonentity like "Ed Gallrein" who refuses to debate (how can any voter reward that?), have him utter a few Boomer slogans to satisfy the rubes, and otherwise hide him away. That was the strategy. Boomers (yes, I know there are exceptions) are too morally and intellectually corrupt even to understand what just happened.
But the rest of us understand.
Can you imagine "Ed Gallrein" leading the charge against the Covid restrictions? He would have been first in line for the damn "vaccine"!
Remember, too, that the folks who voted for "Ed Gallrein" tonight are the kind of people who think Marco Rubio is an impressive person, so there was no reaching them.
But the younger generations, who don't get their information from the insulting caricature of conservatism that is FOX News, aren't going to fall for the nonsense that snookered the Boomers -- and therein lies hope.
Incidentally, the easiest thing in the world would have been for Massie to buckle. Nobody reading this has the remotest idea the pressure that was brought to bear against him. Not one of his detractors could have lasted a week in Massie's shoes.
If Trump can sup in happy concord with Zohran Mamdani, the radical leftist mayor of New York, you'd think he could have spared a meal with Massie, whose track record proved he was not Trump's enemy.
Not that you'd know it from the anti-Massie brigade (half of whom used to love Massie before they were instructed not to love him), Massie defended Trump through two impeachments, grilled Merrick Garland over FBI assets on January 6, and defended Trump during Russiagate. By contrast, "Ed Gallrein" left the GOP when Trump was elected, and came back only when Biden was in office.
But since we're not completely dense, we know the real reason Massie could not be tolerated.
As Glenn Greenwald put it, "If the AIPAC/Adelson crowd wants someone out of Congress for disloyalty to Israel, they will be out of Congress.
"There are a few exceptions due to unusual districts, but not many. The Israel Lobby has unlimited funding and will spend limitlessly to expunge the blasphemous."
I repeat that no American patriot can tolerate, much less celebrate, this grotesque and demeaning situation.
The polls show that this situation won't exist forever. We will reach a point at which the foreign money (and that's obviously what it is) will at last be a mark of shame for the candidate receiving it. That will be a great day for American patriots everywhere.
Thomas Massie should hold his head high: he stood up against the machine time and again, knowing that it could one day lead to this.
Tonight we have to explain to our kids: in this world, the good guys don't always win. But you fight regardless of the prospects of winning. The fight for what is good and right is an end in itself.
For that reason, people will remember the Thomas Massies and the Ron Pauls. Nobody will remember "Ed Gallrein," not even as the answer to a trivia question.
Nathan Sutton retweeted
Major life hack: Don't complain, ever. Nobody likes a complainer. They drain the energy of everyone around them. It's exhausting spending time around someone who constantly complains about things outside their control. If it’s within your control, go do something about it. If it’s not, you’re just wasting energy thinking about it. Complaining gives too much power to the thing. Take back that power.
Nathan Sutton retweeted
If you’re a dad with young kids and you’re healthy and fit.
And you’ve got a steady job/career and a roof over your head.
And a great wife.
Please recognize this: you are living the dream life. The “good old days” are literally happening to you right now.
Nathan Sutton retweeted
The goal is simple.
Beat your prior best in everything you do.
In business
In health
In parenting
In marriage
In decision making
In your spiritual walk
As long as you continue to improve daily, eventually the efforts will compound.
Nathan Sutton retweeted
Journalist Courtney Bonneau reporting from Lebanon:
“Americans, your taxes are being used to kill unarmed men, women and children.”
Nathan Sutton retweeted
Striking civilian electrical infrastructure is a war crime.
The President is threatening war crimes because of an oil price.
Congress must impeach, or the cabinet must invoke the 25th amendment.
This is unacceptable and outside of the authority of the President.
Nathan Sutton retweeted
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If only there were a commodity sharply limited in supply and completely unaffected by any geopolitical bullshit. Seems like that would be super valuable in a moment like this.
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🚨 Research shows repeated complaining physically rewires your brain to prioritize stress and negativity.
The way we speak about our daily challenges does more than just vent frustration; it physically alters the architecture of the brain.
When we engage in chronic complaining, we repeatedly activate neural networks responsible for detecting threats and processing stress.
Through the biological process of neuroplasticity, these circuits become stronger and more efficient every time they are used. Essentially, the brain learns to become more adept at finding things to be unhappy about, turning a temporary mood into a permanent biological predisposition toward negativity and fear-based thinking.
As these negative pathways become the brain's default setting, individuals often experience a measurable increase in baseline stress levels and emotional volatility. This heightened sensitivity means that even minor inconveniences can trigger an intense stress response because the brain has been conditioned to interpret the world through a lens of threat. Findings discussed by the Stanford University School of Medicine emphasize that while this mechanism is powerful, understanding the science of affective neuroscience is the first step in consciously redirecting those pathways toward more resilient emotional patterns.
Source: Stanford University School of Medicine. (2023). Neural Plasticity and the Impact of Negative Thought Patterns on Emotional Regulation. Stanford Medicine News.
ALT Research shows chronic complaining physically rewires your brain to prioritize stress and negativity. The way we speak about our daily challenges does more than just vent frustration; it physically alters the architecture of the brain. When we engage in chronic complaining, we repeatedly activate neural networks responsible for detecting threats and processing stress. Through the biological process of neuroplasticity, these circuits become stronger and more efficient every time they are used. Essentially, the brain learns to become more adept at finding things to be unhappy about, turning a temporary mood into a permanent biological predisposition toward negativity and fear-based thinking. As these negative pathways become the brain's default setting, individuals often experience a measurable increase in baseline stress levels and emotional volatility. This heightened sensitivity means that even minor inconveniences can trigger an intense stress response.
