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“I was having a conversation with one of my mentors last week, and one of the things he told me is that he is no longer impressed by other people because we're all weak on our own. We're all sinners. We all have problems. We're all trying to figure it out. We will never have arrived fully. So to put someone else on a pedestal and view them as impressive, not knowing their true character sometimes, their flaws, their mistakes, their weaknesses, that puts a lot of power in that individual in your eyes.”

“Grind harder, Stack more. Sleep less. Hustle until you drop. That's the false gospel of every motivational page you follow, and it's a lie straight from the pit of hell. You're not building an empire. You're building an idol. And the thing that you're killing yourself to get, God says, is already gone. You've got men out here who can close the business deal in their sleep, but they can't lead their family in prayer. That is not strength. That is slavery with a salary.”

“Ecclesiastes four four, and I saw that all toil and all achievements spring from one person's envy of another. This, too, is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. Are we toiling, and are we wanting and trying to achieve, not for a purposeful pursuit, but because we have envy of what someone else has, a bigger house, a faster marathon time, better abs, happier marriage, more money in the bank, a newer car, all these things, is that what drives our toil and our chase?”

“Within Ecclesiastes, there's a lot of reference to chasing after the wind, which we replace with chasing after success. The wind, just like success, just like money, just like things, it is a metaphor for meaningless and temporary human pursuits that lack eternal significance. World achievements, like wealth, pleasure, and wisdom, are intangible, fleeting, and impossible to truly grasp. Just as you can't catch or hold the wind, you cannot find lasting satisfaction in material accomplishments.”

“And the quote is, leadership is a potent combination of character and strategy. But if you must be without one, be without strategy. Leadership is a potent combination of character and strategy. But if you must be without one, be without strategy. That's how meaningful character is.”

“But the quote is that success is a purposeful pursuit, not driven by the carrot, but by the character refining failures. A few notes here. Purposeful pursuit. Success is a purposeful pursuit. It is not a finish line. It is not an end goal. It is not a milestone. It is a pursuit, always ongoing.”

“Hard work is and should be purposeful. It is not punishment. Hard work is not punishment. It doesn't have to be punishment. This is why I think hustle culture is dying and should die. Hustle culture, the lifestyle of grinding, it is put on this pedestal as a punishment, as opposed to being purposeful. Hard work is a calling on every one of us to steward our talents well and serve others appropriately.”

“I wanna leave a legacy for my kids that they can go back and watch and listen to and learn from, that teaches them the lessons that I have learned in my lifetime so that they don't make the same mistakes that I made. They avoid some failures through my lessons, and they approach life differently. At the end of the day, that is why I share these messages. Yeah, I want you guys to benefit, but I want my kids to have these legacy pieces that set them on the right path that follows the truth, that doesn't leave them chasing something that is fleeting.”

“I used to be a horrible person to vacation with or even weekends. Like, Steph can attest to this. When I used to go on vacations, family vacations, I was a miserable person because I felt guilty that I wasn't working. I felt guilty that I wasn't training twice a day. I felt guilty because I wasn't perfectly hitting my nutrition plan and all my macros for every single meal of the day. There was a lot of guilt that I carried going into vacation. Same with weekends. Come Saturday morning till Sunday night, I was angry because I wasn't working.”