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Coming to on this Friday night here, real quick before I jump into my own sweat session.

But I stumbled across this blog post and article shared from a guy that I used to hoop with way back on the day.

And I wanted to share it with all of you guys because it was just a handful of friendly reminders for me

but I feel from any of you out there it's going to cut much much deeper and maybe spark something especially around this time of the year of the holidays that allows you to make a change and maybe start doing things slightly different so I have to share this before I even dig in.

Admittedly, I don't see most things on social media because I don't consume it like a normal

person, not because I don't want to, but we're so busy here creating and documenting

and doing programs and coaching humans and putting out, you know, stuff every single day,

I don't have the bandwidth to sit and scroll through and waste, you know,

six minutes here, seven minutes here, eight minutes here, and on somebody else's stuff.

Not because I think I'm better than anybody and not because I don't want to see what's

going on in your guys' lives, but my mental bandwidth is only so big. And so like there's only so much I can squeeze in my head. And that stuff just has to go to the side. But once in a great while, I'll see things. You know, I'll click it, I'll like it, especially if it's our clients or our people here that are so involved in my life. But I saw a guy used to hoop with, the name is Monty Graham.

He posted it, and the title struck me, and so I scrolled through it, and I went kind of down

the article, you know, Vortex, and I got lost in it, and it was a great read, so I wanted

to share it with all of you guys today.

And I need to share a story quick about Monty. This will tie into the article itself. Monty's a duty. He grew up in my hood. Actually played in the Knoptery with us. And again, if you guys who know me, it's the same, you know, basketball tournament we made up as kids that we've kept going on for 25 years here. and we still, you know, play on the 4th of July every year. I think this is year number 25, which is insane because we're all old and terrible now. But I remember, like, one play specifically. In Monti, he's a pretty good baller, and he would try really hard. And he would play defense, he would hustle, he'd do all the things that annoyed you if you're playing against him and all the things that you loved if he was your teammate.

And I remember I got a steal in the tourney and it went up for a dunk. I dunked it. He followed

me. My hand slips off the rim. And I'm either like just graduating college or I had just graduated.

So I'm like in my prime juice years, right? And when I say I have the juice, like the best I ever was in terms of sport and athletics and in that time frame of life, my hands ups off the rim and I go straight down each shit on the concrete, just like boom, fall super hard. And I remember I was so pissed, I just wanted to punch him in his face.

But that's the game. And again, if that happened to me today, I'd probably be dead, so I couldn't do anything whatsoever. But I bounced back up, we played, and that was kind of the relationship him and I had, at least playing, like where it was competitive. He would try. He would hustle, and you just kind of do your thing. and Monty, if you're listening,

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