💎  5 Tweet Tuesday 💎 

My favorite 5 tweets of the week. Let’s dive in:

#1 💎 

PREACH.

I recently paid a lady $15k to come declutter my entire house. For years, we just bought so much STUFF. 5 years, 3 kids, Amazon, Christmas, etc… We were like the government. Everything came in, nothing came out. 

In the first 8 hours, we transformed the entire first floor of the house.  We opened that “miscellaneous junk drawer” in the kitchen that we’d avoided for years. We donated toys and threw away old junk that we didn’t need.

I was shocked how little time it took. I had avoided the task for years, and it took like 8 hours to make a huge difference.

#2 💎 

As a world-class cheese lover, I had to learn more: 

• Parmigiano cheese takes 12–36 months to age (before it can be sold) 

• But farmers need cash now

• So they give over their wheels of cheese to a special bank (“The Fort Knox of Cheese”)

• The bank lends 60-80% of the value, 3-5% interest

• The bank ages the cheese in its own climate controlled warehouses

• Miss a payment and they sell your cheese

Now because of the heat, the banks are forced to spend more on cooling/energy costs, and cows at the farms are laying down in the heat and producing less milk. 

Well, now ya know.

#3 💎 

I love this tweet. As a recovering self improver, you notice that people get “addicted to the checkup”.

Self improvement starts as a good idea. “I want to improve this weakness of mine” - of course. Who can argue with that? 

But like all things, the dose makes the poison. Too much self improvement becomes an obsession with yourself. With your flaws. Self awareness can easily become self hatred as you focus on flaws.

This is the inner version of celebrities who start getting plastic surgery to fix a wrinkle and soon are unrecognizable wax zombies. 

Gotta balance self improvement with self respect. Being proud of who you are now. Not just focused on being a better you in the future.

#4 💎 

We have Presidents Day, Pride Week, how about Delusional December?

#5 💎 

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