tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689Tue, 25 Aug 2026 14:57:05 +000021 DaysMindBodyNotes/QuotesSoulKarmaDebt/Personal Finance750 WordsIntrospectionMorning RoutineDeclutteringFood JournalMeditationNSA GivingPhotoADayEarly to RiseMile RunPhysical FitnessTEDRoutineNo VehicleAssetsOTSmoke Free15/16RelationshipsPushups/LungesWaterDiaryCreateDiet/ExerciseGluten FreeReadingSleepWake UpEnd of LifeLitterMarketingMeditateOtherRecipegardeningUnlike self-improvement—which is often about aggressively chasing goals, building habits, or "fixing" yourself—ripening is about time, integration, and readiness.http://www.theripening.com/noreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)Blogger598125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-98949745813112945Mon, 17 Aug 2026 23:35:00 +00002026-08-17T19:35:00.119-04:00Notes/QuotesThe following are my favorites quotes from Mel Robbins's The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About.Small, consistent action changes everything.Other people hold no real power over you unless you give it to them.There is one thing you will never be able to control. No matter how hard you try, you will never be able to control or change another http://www.theripening.com/2026/08/notes-quotes-let-them-theory-mel-robbins.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-3443853194030945046Mon, 31 Mar 2025 11:36:00 +00002025-04-08T13:52:45.664-04:00MindNotes/QuotesThe following are my favorites quotes from Sahil Bloom's The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life:The arrival fallacy is the false assumption that reaching some achievement or goal will create durable feelings of satisfaction and contentment in our lives. We incorrectly assume that we will finally experience the sensation of having arrived when we reach whatever we http://www.theripening.com/2025/03/notes-quotes-5-types-of-wealth-sahil-bloom.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-8926914631315608279Mon, 03 Feb 2025 13:18:00 +00002025-02-03T08:18:00.122-05:00MindNotes/QuotesThe following are my favorite quotes from Steve Leder's The Beauty of What Remains: How Our Greatest Fear Becomes Our Greatest Gift:This very simple insight, that most of us tend to face death the same way we faced life, is mind-blowing for a lot of people when they first hear it. It changes the context of death from something foreign and filled with wishful thinking to something familiar that http://www.theripening.com/2025/02/notes-quotes-beauty-what-remains-steve-leder.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-1761239111647391806Mon, 06 Jan 2025 12:43:00 +00002025-01-06T07:43:00.226-05:00MindNotes/QuotesThe following are my favorite quotes from Adam Grant's Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things:It's often said that where there's a will, there's a way. What we overlook is that when people can't see a path, they stop dreaming of the destination.The true measure of your potential is not the height of the peak you've reached, but how far you've climbed to get there.Character is http://www.theripening.com/2025/01/notes-quotes-hidden-potential-adam-grant.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-3216594389119344770Mon, 02 Dec 2024 12:29:00 +00002024-12-02T07:29:00.117-05:00MindNotes/QuotesThe following are my favorite quotes from Brad Aronson's HumanKind: Changing the World One Small Act At a Time.The heroes in HumanKind don't command an army of helpers or have an abundance of free time. They're everyday people who focus on what they can do to make a difference. Their acts of kindness change lives and even save them. These everyday heroes don't just hope the world will get better-http://www.theripening.com/2024/12/notes-quotes-humankind-brad-aronson.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-2684102627868507752Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:41:00 +00002024-11-11T07:41:00.113-05:00MindNotes/QuotesThe following are my favorite quotes from Lt. Col. Scott Mann's Nobody Is Coming to Save You: A Green Beret's Guide to Getting Big Sh*t Done.Ultimately, this is how we get big shit done: by being able to relate to the pain of others, and by being more relevant to their goals.Humans are ancient creatures who seek Meaning, are primarily Emotional, are definitely Social, and are all Storytellers whohttp://www.theripening.com/2024/11/notes-quotes-nobody-coming-to-save-you-scott-mann.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-6245724892554866806Mon, 19 Aug 2024 15:59:00 +00002024-08-19T11:59:00.122-04:00MindNotes/QuotesThe following are my favorite quotes from Bob Burg and John David Mann's The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea.Ultimately, the world treats you more or less the way you expect to be treated.Appearances can be deceiving. Truth is, they nearly always are.The Golden Rule of Business. All things being equal, people will do business with and refer business to those people they http://www.theripening.com/2024/08/notes-quotes-go-giver-bob-burg-john-david-mann.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-2681824434833914393Mon, 15 Jul 2024 12:01:00 +00002024-07-15T08:01:00.117-04:00MindNotes/QuotesThe following are my favorite quotes from Hadley Vlahos's (R.N) The In-Between: Unforgettable Encounters During Life's Final Moments.I made a note to myself that if I were in a position like this in the future, I would instead explain what I going to do and why, and assure the patient that I would finish as quickly as possible.I reminded myself to live for today, not the fears of tomorrow--a http://www.theripening.com/2024/07/notes-quotes-the-in-between-hadley-vlahos-rn.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-4886514798201040816Mon, 24 Jun 2024 15:10:00 +00002024-06-24T11:10:00.221-04:00MindNotes/QuotesThe following are my favorite quotes from Bob Proctor's Change Your Paradigm, Change Your Life:A paradigm is a mental program situated in your subconscious that has almost exclusive control over all your habitual behavior--and almost all of your behavior is habitual.There's no point in telling people to do something if you're not doing it yourself.When you read a good book through the second timehttp://www.theripening.com/2024/06/notes-quotes-change-your-paradigm-change-your-life-bob-proctor.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-4387897341168931912Mon, 03 Jun 2024 11:34:00 +00002024-05-08T14:08:11.519-04:00MindNotes/QuotesThe following are my favorite quotes from Bill Burnett and Dave Evans's Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life.A well-designed life is a life that is generative--it is constantly creative, productive, changing, evolving, and there is always a possibility of surprise.Designers love questions, but what they really love is reframing questions.Your life is not a thing, it's an http://www.theripening.com/2024/05/notes-quotes-designing-your-life-bill-burnett-dave-evans.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-6836879862614891049Mon, 13 May 2024 10:50:00 +00002024-05-13T06:50:00.238-04:00MindNotes/QuotesThe following are my favorite quotes from John Green's The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet.My brother, Hank, who started out his professional life as a biochemist, once explained it to me like this: As a person, he told me, your biggest problem is other people. You are vulnerable to people, and reliant upon them. But imagine instead that you are a twenty-first-century http://www.theripening.com/2024/05/notes-quotes-anthropocene-reviewed-john-green.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-5006387733553863518Mon, 22 Apr 2024 11:54:00 +00002024-04-22T07:54:00.131-04:00MindNotes/QuotesThe following are my favorite quotes from Billy Walters's Gambler: Secrets from a Life at Risk:My philosophy on life is simple: You come into this world with nothing, and you leave with nothing. So seize every opportunity to leave a legacy that might inspire others to make the most of their time on earth. At the end of the day, there are two people you can't bullshit--yourself and your maker. Youhttp://www.theripening.com/2024/04/notes-quotes-gambler-billy-walters.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-396414488273624435Mon, 01 Apr 2024 11:25:00 +00002024-04-01T07:25:00.169-04:00MindNotes/QuotesThe following are my favorite quotes from Charles Barber's Citizen Outlaw: One Man's Journey from Gangleader to Peacekeeper:At age seven, [William] Outlaw so much admired one of the officers, a strapping man who would go on to become New Haven's first African-American police commissioner, that he wanted to become a policeman. But by age ten, Outlaw had seen the behavior of other officers, who http://www.theripening.com/2024/03/notes-quotes-citizen-outlaw-charles-barber.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-4507034637527493463Mon, 11 Mar 2024 11:41:00 +00002024-03-11T07:41:00.263-04:00MindNotes/QuotesThe following are my favorite notes from Danny Meyer's Setting the Table: The Transforming Power of Hospitality in Business.Within moments of being born, most babies find themselves receiving the first four gifts of life: eye contact, a smile, a hug, and some food. We receive many other gifts in a lifetime, but few can ever surpass those first four.I've learned how crucially important it is to http://www.theripening.com/2024/03/notes-quotes-setting-the-table-danny-meyer.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-7998069040979332904Thu, 29 Feb 2024 12:16:00 +00002024-02-29T07:16:00.189-05:00MindNotes/QuotesThe following are my favorite quotes from Henry Shukman's One Blade of Grass: Finding the Old Road of the Heart, a Zen Memoir.My gaze fixed on the wall in front of me--a wall of adobe, glowing in the light of a lamp. An intense love for the wall welled up, almost as if I were falling in love with it, and it with me. All of a sudden, with what felt like a seismic jolt, the room seemed to blow widehttp://www.theripening.com/2024/02/notes-quotes-one-blade-of-grass-henry-shukman.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-784883330537953800Mon, 19 Feb 2024 11:46:00 +00002024-02-19T06:46:00.152-05:00MindNotes/QuotesThe following are my favorite quotes from Will Harris's A Bold Return to Giving a Damn: One Farm, Six Generations, and the Future of Food.Reasonable people can probably agree that the way our food system has evolved--into one based on mass-produced industrial inputs; monocultures of foods that nobody, not even animals, should gorge on, unspeakable conditions for animals and undignified conditionshttp://www.theripening.com/2024/02/notes-quotes-bold-return-giving-damn-will-harris.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-1663544357513273148Thu, 08 Feb 2024 23:31:00 +00002024-02-08T18:31:00.130-05:00MindNotes/QuotesThe following are my favorite quotes from Rich Paul's Lucky Me: A Memoir of Changing the Odds.Smart gamblers know how to manage the risks, move with intention and integrity, control what they control--and in the end, they have the heart to let the dice fall where they may.Crack was so powerful it decimated my mother's love and expedited my adolescence. I had to grow from a cub to a young wolf http://www.theripening.com/2024/02/notes-quotes-lucky-me-rich-paul.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-2737750603888056333Mon, 29 Jan 2024 11:31:00 +00002024-01-29T06:31:00.132-05:00MindNotes/QuotesThe following are my favorite quotes from Haruki Murakami's What I Talk About When I Talk About Running:Somerset Maugham once wrote that in each shave lies a philosophy. I couldn't agree more. No matter how mundane some action might appear, keep at it long enough and it becomes a contemplative, even meditative act.One runner told of a mantra his older brother, also a runner, had taught him which http://www.theripening.com/2024/01/notes-quotes-talk-about-running-haruki-murakami.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-1070820189743741468Mon, 08 Jan 2024 12:38:00 +00002024-01-08T07:38:00.131-05:00MindNotes/QuotesThe following are my favorite quotes from Brett Crozier's Surf When You Can: Lessons in Life, Loyalty, and Leadership from a Maverick Navy Captain.I think we're better people when we open our hearts and minds to others. Whether it's a neighbor, a stranger on the street, or perhaps even a mildly annoying colonel who seems infatuated with your call sign, relationships can be unexpected gifts, but http://www.theripening.com/2024/01/notes-quotes-surf-when-you-can-brett-crozier.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-4121416523633996435Mon, 18 Dec 2023 12:15:00 +00002023-12-18T07:15:00.137-05:00MindNotes/QuotesThe following are my favorite quotes from Michael Easter's Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough.It doesn't matter how much gas we give good new habits; if we don't resolve our bad ones, we still have our foot on the brake.Aren't addiction, obesity, anxiety, chronic diseases, debt, environmental destruction, political dispute, war, and more all http://www.theripening.com/2023/12/notes-quotes-scarcity-brain-michael-easter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-7177797963920377992Mon, 27 Nov 2023 23:15:00 +00002023-11-27T18:15:00.243-05:00MindNotes/QuotesThe following are my favorite quotes from Rener Gracie's The 32 Principles: Harnessing the Power of Jui-Jitsu to Succeed in Business, Relationships, and Life.On more than one occasion, I have been asked if, in retrospect, I view my back injury as a type of blessing in disguise. My answer to that question has always been consistent, I believe that life doesn't happen to you. Life happens for you. http://www.theripening.com/2023/11/notes-quotes-32-principles-Rener-Gracie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-1378054240971026335Mon, 09 Oct 2023 11:50:00 +00002023-11-17T10:03:14.717-05:00MindNotes/Quotes The following are my favorite quotes from Rickson Gracie's Breathe: A Life in Flow.My dad believed that if you mind and will are not strong, you'll spend your entire life getting carried away by your desires and weaknesses. You'll spend your whole life paying for things you don't want.From a very young age, it was drilled into us that there was no shame in losing but there was shame in http://www.theripening.com/2023/10/notes-quotes-breathe-rickson-gracie.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-8724675173964756316Mon, 07 Aug 2023 11:22:00 +00002023-11-17T10:03:10.516-05:00MindNotes/QuotesThe following are my favorite quotes from Pema Chodron's How We Live Is How We Die.The term bardo is usually associated with the intermediate state between lives, but a broader translation of the word is simply "transition" or "gap". The journey that takes place after our death is one such transition, but when we examine our experience closely, we will find that we are always in transition. http://www.theripening.com/2023/08/notes-quotes-how-we-live-is-how-we-die-pema-chodron.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-1771056736456252799Mon, 17 Jul 2023 14:45:00 +00002023-11-17T10:03:06.014-05:00MindNotes/QuotesThe following are my favorite quotes from Steven Pressfield's Put Your Ass Where Your Heart Wants to Be.The only questions I ask are, Did I show up? Did I try my best? If I've done that, then I've put my butt where my heart wants to be. I can't ask anything of myself more than that."How much do we want it?" "What sacrifices are we willing to make to see this project succeed?" "Have we 'moved'-http://www.theripening.com/2023/07/notes-quotes-put-your-ass-steven-pressfield.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8481148316806703689.post-3779514013133434300Mon, 08 May 2023 10:47:00 +00002023-11-17T10:03:02.396-05:00Notes/Quotes The following are my favorite quotes from Matthew Little's The Way is in Training.Technical skill and physical preparedness are both useless without a commensurate development of the mind. And not just an academic or scholarly one. The warrior's mind must ride the edge of a razor like a samurai's zen or a praetorian's stoicism. In the moment, unflustered, and resolute. No attachment to http://www.theripening.com/2023/05/notes-quotes-way-is-in-training-matthew-little.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (JaDatNilla)