Who do you surround yourself with? Have you ever really thought about that? Because it matters more than you think. Surround yourself with losers… …and you’ll start picking up their habits. “It doesn’t matter.” “That’s not a big deal.” “We’ll do it later.” You hear it enough… You start to believe it. You start to live it. Now flip it. Surround yourself with winners… …and you’ll start to move like them. You’ll move with urgency. Your standards go up. You take your life more seriously. You execute. And it bleeds into everything… The way you think. The way you act. The way you carry yourself. Everything. I’m grateful to be around people who get it. People who execute. People who don’t take it easy. People who hold the line no matter what. That kind of environment forces you to level up. Every single day. Surround yourself with greatness… …and you’ll become great. Surround yourself with bullshit… …and your life will reflect it. You choose.

No matter how hard you try… You’re going to fail. Not once. A lot. It happens to everyone. Most people never even start because they’re afraid of it. Others try once… fail… and quit. Very few people understand the truth: Failure is part of the deal. You don’t get to win without it. You take the lesson. You adjust. You get back up. And you don’t make the same mistake twice. Do that over and over again… And nobody can stop you from winning. Refuse to accept it… And you’ll waste your potential… …while blaming everyone else for why you didn’t make it.

I wrote this the other day. I have been journaling for a few years now, but I haven’t written in this “poetry style”in a while. I thought I would share it with the brothers. Sometimes it doesn’t disappear all at once, it slips away quietly. A distant look in the eyes. A moment where recognition falters. Words spoken that no longer land. A gaze fixed on nothing, and frustration rising from somewhere you can’t reach. You hold tight to what once was, knowing it now lives only in your memory… and even that feels fragile, like something time will eventually carry away. The slipping. The fading. The empty stare. And one day… the silence where it all used to be. Random thoughts lying in bed staring at the ceiling fan.

The world sees you the way you see yourself. Most people get that backwards. They think they are what the world decides they are. That’s not how it works. The world responds to the identity you accept. It reflects what you believe about yourself. That’s hard for most people to grasp. They think it’s already been decided… The house they’ll live in. The car they’ll drive. The money they’ll make. The impact they’ll have. The life they’ll settle for. Like it’s all been assigned… And they just have to accept it. That’s a lie. You can change it today. You can decide who you are. You can start thinking like that person. Making the choices they would make. Taking the actions they would take. And if you do it consistently… You won’t just act like that person. You’ll become them. See yourself as who you want to be. Start today.

I would love to think he would say that I am a loving and caring uncle who loves to play with him. I would like to think he knows his uncle loves him very much despite the fact we don’t get to hang out very often I also hope he would know his uncle jar would move mountains for him. I haven’t got to hang out with him much or even see him on the phone to much but with what time I have been able to spend with him I would think he would describe me like this.