“When you feel small and invisible or stretched-too-thin-and-all-used up, when life feels too hard to live and pain feels too much to bear, when guilt and shame and self-condemnation feel too heavy to carry, go outside and stand barefoot in the stardust-speckled dirt with your face tilted up to the universe and whisper to your wounded heart, 'This is not how my story ends. There is so much more to life than this moment, these hours, this day, this season of my life. It's my story. I get to choose. It doesn't end here;' And then take your pen in hand and write the rest of your gorgeous, shredded, pasted-back-together story however you choose to write it. And remember, you're not alone. We're all writing our own jacked up stories our own way, too. Welcome to our tribe of misfits and outcasts and rebels and dreamers. We are the story-weavers. And we're all on this ride through the galaxy together.” LifePainHumanShameTiredGuiltSmallStretched Author:L.R. Knost
“A startup founder is like a conductor of an orchestra, initially playing every instrument. Whilst playing the instruments also finding talented people to take over each instrument and raise $ to buy better instruments. All whilst ensuring the crowd doesn't leave and grows!” ConductorStartupMultitaskingVenture CapitalTechFounderStretched Author:Henry Joseph-Grant
“Leadership obeys the principle of Hooke's law to the very bone. It explains: When an elastic material is stretched, it returns to its original position. But when it's over stretched beyond its limit point, it loses its elasticity and becomes plastic, and later cuts or breaks. As a leader, in your leadership disposition, it behoves of you to acquaint yourself with this very leadership principle that edges forward. It's however, a human nature to adopt to an environment, so, leaders are humans, they tend to have this rapore with their followers which is somewhat a must needed. But the ability for such one to return and recollect to knowing his boundary makes a good leader. A phenomenon whereby he becomes drunk of platitudes, then it comes to a time where they (followers) dictate for him. And even sought and suggest plans without his consent or knowing, it has gotten to the point of plastic and break respectively.” LawLeadershipAbilityEnvironmentPositionPhenomenonPlasticDispositionPrinciplePlatitudesMaterialBoundaryFollowershipStretchedElasticAcquaintHookeHooke S LawLimit PointRapore Author:Richmond Akhigbe
“It’s been said that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. And that may be true. However, if I want to grow and be stretched in the journey, I won’t be looking for the straight line.” GrowthPersonal GrowthStriveMaturitySpiritual GrowthStretched Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough
“Stretched and skewed Tap of the 8-ball and the cue Scratches fall through They are the scars of you” LovePainPoetrySufferingSportsHurtLiesMetaphorCleverRejectionSongwritingPoolScarsLyricsRhymingBilliardsScratchSkewedStretchedCue Ball8 Ball Book:Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile Source: Salomé: In Every Inch in Every Mile