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Blake Burge

@blakeaburge

Helping You Learn While I Do The Same | Fan of Bourbon & Books 🥃 📚

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Early in my career there's one thing I consistently got wrong: Devaluing tasks.

Every skill you learn today is setting you up for a better tomorrow.

The boring, mundane, and often rudimentary activities you take for granted, become the things people will pay you for later on.

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Discipline can be boiled down to the ability to ignore the voice in your head that says: “I’ll do it tomorrow.”

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Had a thought this morning during my workout...

Don't expect to get what others have spent years working for in just a few months.

Fitness, wealth, wisdom, all come with time and effort.

You can't shortcut the system for things of real value, and I'm not sure you'd want to.

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“Of all sad words of mouth or pen, the saddest are these: it might have been.” ~ John Greenleaf Whittier

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I am not anti-social.

But conversations with new people feel like a maze.

A maze where I've been given a map, but it's written in a language I don't quite understand.

Because of this, people think I don't like talking.

They're wrong.

I love deep conversation, it's the small…

I am not anti-social. But conversations with new people feel like a maze. A maze where I've been given a map, but it's written in a language I don't quite understand. Because of this, people think I don't like talking. They're wrong. I love deep conversation, it's the small…
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Attending these events and seeing the impact they have on people is truly inspiring.

If you’re able to join in 2024–highly recommend!

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In life, there are plenty of things better left unsaid.

The trick is figuring out what they are before the words come rolling out of your mouth.

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Trying my best to raise a son that's:

• Confident, yet humble.
• Respectful, but not a pushover.
• Ambitious, yet satisfied.
• Self assured, but not arrogant.
• Outgoing, yet comfortable with boredom.
• Tough, but not overbearing.
• Smart, yet desperate to learn.

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Instead of, 'I'm not sure I can do this.'

Try, 'I know I can figure this out.'

Self-confidence isn't about ability, it's about intention.

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When people tell you something good about yourself––believe them.

Lots of us are super-awkward when someone says something nice. We like validation but have a hard time knowing what to do with it when it comes.

Don't overthink it.

A simple 'thank you' is all that's required.

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Two types of tired:

1. Out of shape, behind on tasks, stressed to the max.

2. Worked out hard, gave full effort at your job, played in the yard with your kids.

The second feels completely different than the first.

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“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.”

–– E.B. White

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Most of the time the thing that holds us back is not a lack of knowledge but an inability (or lack of discipline) to do what we know we should.

There's a massive difference between not knowing what steps to take and simply failing to take them.

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You suck at a lot of things.

Guess what –– so does everyone else.

Give yourself permission to try, to fail, to look foolish.

We're all a mess at one level or another.

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Self-esteem comes from doing things that are difficult and training your brain that this is the type of person you are.

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