Tag Archive - Motivation

Let go of the brakes

Do not resist chances. Take them like vitamins.

Let go of the brakes. See what happens if you go five more miles.

Foot bridges be damned, find your own way across.

Don’t worry about the bumps and bruises. Your body can take them.

Don’t steer around the bits that scare you. Go over them. Go through them.

Do something the guys in the bowling league would be terrified of.

You will feel your chin rise up from your chest. And you’ll be able to see what’s around you. What’s ahead of you.

And there will be one less thing you cannot do.

-A Nike ad from the early nineties. It has inspired me ever since I saw it in an issue of Outside magazine.

Work Your Face Off Today

One of my favorite online personalities is Gary Vaynerchuk, founder and host of Wine Library TV. Now, you have to understand, Gary is a hustling New Jersey businessman. But he knows how to get it done and he knows how to live fully. I’ve learned a lot about wine (and business, BTW) by watching him and I was happy to see him mentioned in Chris Brogan and Julien Smith’s new book, Trust Agents.

Now, Gary has three simple rules for “crushing it,” as he calls it. Three simple rules for living the life you want. I want to share those with you because I think they apply to us no matter if we’re trying to be an artist, a marketer, a hot dog vendor, whatever. Thanks Gary. Keep it coming.

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