Rosemary Goodwin
@rosemary
Rosemary Goodwin
@rosemary
"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow."
Albert Einstein
Padel is not a gym. It’s not a franchise you can copy and paste. It’s a community-dependent business where trust and culture drive participation. A founder who loves the game brings an energy that trickles down to their staff and members. That team becomes the glue — helping fill in last-minute games, making new players feel welcome, and teaching t
... See moreConsider, for a moment, the nature of the tennis ball: its industrial-grade felt engineered to endure kinetic violence, absorb friction and trauma until it frays, and dies an artifact of effort.
Then consider the heart—not the Hallmark variety, but the actual, tireless muscle, that pounds through tiebreaks and third sets, and victory and defeat, and
... See moreThere’s a lot of alpha in being willing to do “menial” work (take notes, send out agendas, order pizza, manually inspect raw data, whatever). Beware over-delegation and being too far from the details.
Everyone wants to attend parties, but no one wants to throw them. We just expect them to appear when we need them, like fire trucks. My point is that we are obligated to create the social world we want. Intimacy, togetherness-the opposite of the crushing loneliness so many people seem to feel-are what parties alchemize.
“I don’t really think that it’s just a question of money, but also respect,” Jabeur said. “It’s small details that make the difference.”
People with a high agency mindset are frequently enthusiastic and positive. They rarely complain, gossip, or whine. They’re often skeptical but almost never cynical. They usually look on the bright side and are surprisingly good at finding silver linings without being naive or foolhardy. They are positive-sum thinkers with abundance, not scarcity,
... See moreStory is the interface we use to make sense of the world, ourselves, and others.