Company High/Low – 4/19/21
Quote “I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.” – Dudley Field Malone High Most of the time, we like to be around people who agree with us. We love to feel right, and being around people who think we are presents a perfect opportunity for justifying this…
Company High/Low – 4/5/21
Quote “The grass is greener where you water it.” — Neil Barringham High This quote from Neil Barringham illustrates a number of key principles. For one thing, the grass doesn’t grow green by itself: it has to be watered, otherwise it turns brown rather than green. Most things of value in life are going to…
Company High/Low – 3/29/21
Quote “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr. High One of the peculiar things about how life on earth works is that we can only live one day at a time. We can’t skip ahead and live tomorrow before today, and we can’t go back and change…
Company High/Low – 3/16/21
Quote “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” – John Barrymore High Sometimes, the things that bring us the most joy come from places we don’t expect. As it turns out, we’re often really bad at knowing what we want. We work our entire lives chasing something, and then…
Company High/Low – 3/9/21
Quote “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller High One of the hard things we may encounter in life is a situation where we have to let go of one good thing in order to go to the next. It’s a scary thing to loose…
Company High/Low – 3/1/21
Quote “Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.” ― Madeleine L’Engle High One of the biggest things that keeps us from starting the projects we’d like to (especially creative ones) is the lack of inspiration. We often feel like we need an “inspired” starting point to magically appear in our heads before we…
Company High/Low – 2/22/21
Quote “We Generate Fears While We Sit. We Overcome Them By Action.” – Dr. Henry Link High The imagination is a powerful thing – it can create in our minds scenes of unprecedented joy and excitement, yet also often produces some of the scariest situations we’ve never seen. We’re all afraid of something(s). The unfortunate…
Company High/Low – 2/15/21
Quote “If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.” – J.K. Rowling High Last week, we discussed pride and how it can be damaging to our own lives and the lives of those around us. But this quote highlights another aspect…
Company High/Low – 2/8/21
Quote “As long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you” – C.S. Lewis High Pride is one of the most, if not the most, damaging things which, unfortunately, we let into our lives quite often. It is the epitome of selfishness – the belief and the desire not to…
Company High/Low – 2/1/20
Quote “The time is always right to do what is right.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. High Today is the first day of February, also known as Black History Month. This last year gave rise to an increased awareness of the injustices that have been shown to people of color both in the past…
Company High/Low – 1/25/21
Quote “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” – William Shakespeare High There are a number of ways in which we could interpret this quote from Shakespeare. For example, one might say he’s warning against pride, and they’d be right. However, I think there is…
Company High/Low – 1/18/21
Quote “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.” – Martin Luther King Jr. High Today is a national holiday on which we honor Martin Luther King Jr.’s great contributions to our society. He was not afraid to call out the glaring issues…
Company High/Low – 1/11/21
Quote “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” -Maya Angelou High This quote from Maya Angelou highlights a principle that we’ve talked about many times before in the High/Low weekly – the difference between your identity and your experiences. We’ve talked about it in the context of success and…
Company High/Low – 1/4/21
High This is the first Monday of 2021! We hope we find you well. As we mentioned in our last message, many people like to take the New Year as an opportunity to reset their lives, most commonly in the form of New Year’s resolutions. I think in some respect, we all set our own…
Company High/Low – 12/28/20
High Hey everyone, we hope you’re having a wonderful holiday season! In case you missed it, we just released a huge update to our iOS app, and we’d love for you to check it out! This year has been a difficult one for people all over the world. It’s been full of hard things. We…
High/Low v2 Released for iOS!
Hey everyone, we hope you’re all doing well this Christmas season! It’s been a crazy year, but we haven’t been sitting idle at High/Low. We’ve been working on a huge update to our iOS app that we hope you’ll enjoy! Here’s the video announcement (or read below): At High/Low, we’re committed to improving the spiritual…
Company High/Low – 12/21/20
High Merry Christmas everyone! We hope you’ve been enjoying this holiday season! This will be the last issue of the High/Low weekly before Christmas, so we wanted to use this as an opportunity to give you a brief blessing before leaving you to your holidays: May your Christmas season be filled with the joy of…
Company High/Low – 12/7/20
High As we’re entering into the Christmas season, we thought it would be nice to hear from our users what some of their favorite Christmas traditions are! For many people, Christmas is a time to revisit traditions of the past, and share memories with the people we love. If you have a special tradition you’d…
Company High/Low – 11/30/20
High Yesterday was the first day of advent – an important time for us at High/Low (after all, our app is entirely based on the idea of reflection 😜). This is a very special season leading up to Christmas as we anticipate this wonderful holiday. The Christmas season is one of my personal favorites -…
Company High/Low – 11/23/20
High Surprise! You might have noticed there’s no quote this week. We thought that since Thanksgiving is coming up so soon, we would make this weekly High/Low a group participation! Low We’d like to hear from all of you: what’s one thing you’re thankful for this year, and what is your favorite Thanksgiving dish? Just…
Company High/Low – 11/16/20
Quote “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.” -David Brinkley High This quote by David Brinkley highlights an important concept: the power of perspective. In the case presented in this quote, there are three perspectives being presented, all having to do with what…
Company High/Low – 11/9/20
Quote “When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better to.” – Paulo Coelho High When you think about it, it’s rather ironic that choosing to love people pushes us to become better ourselves. You would think that…
Company High/Low – 11/2/20
Quote “The secret of success is to do the common thing uncommonly well.” -John D. Rockefeller Jr. High Sometimes we get caught up trying to stand out by doing uncommon things. We try to think up new ideas, new designs, and new processes that we think will revolutionize our lives. There is absolutely a place…
Company High/Low – 10/26/20
Quote “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” -Abraham Lincoln High This is another clever quote by Abraham Lincoln – while on the surface it sounds like a witty remark, Lincoln is communicating a deeper idea that translates into a mindset about how he…
Company High/Low – 10/20/20
Quote “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” -George Addair High When we’re trying to accomplish our goals, there’s two things that most often come against us: things we can’t control, and fear of things we can’t control. There will always be things we can’t control – in fact, there’s very,…
Company High/Low – 10/12/20
Quote “Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value.” -Albert Einstein High Last week we talked about the fact that failures often come before successes. We ended with a reminder not to let your successes or failures define who you are. Now we’re going to dive a bit deeper…
Company High/Low – 10/5/20
Quote “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” -Nelson Mandela High If you look at the lives of the most successful people, you’ll find they often find failure a lot more than they find success. Steve Jobs, famous as the cofounder of Apple computer, was…
Company High/Low – 9/28/20
Quote “Light does not have to fight to dispel the darkness” – Blake Healy High Most people are accustomed to the idea of light and dark representing good and evil. We see it in movies and television, and we read it in books and other stories. We have famous characters such as Darth Vader talking…
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