Tom Ward
@tomward.bsky.social
"Trust follows consistency.
The business that delivers a quality product every time earns the customer's trust.
The person in the relationship who shows up reliably — who keeps promises, who responds with steadiness — earns the trust of the other.
The pattern is the proof."
- James Clear
The business that delivers a quality product every time earns the customer's trust.
The person in the relationship who shows up reliably — who keeps promises, who responds with steadiness — earns the trust of the other.
The pattern is the proof."
- James Clear
February 19, 2026 at 6:02 PM
"Trust follows consistency.
The business that delivers a quality product every time earns the customer's trust.
The person in the relationship who shows up reliably — who keeps promises, who responds with steadiness — earns the trust of the other.
The pattern is the proof."
- James Clear
The business that delivers a quality product every time earns the customer's trust.
The person in the relationship who shows up reliably — who keeps promises, who responds with steadiness — earns the trust of the other.
The pattern is the proof."
- James Clear
Reposted by Tom Ward
Comfort is more expensive than you think.
Not because it costs money- but because it costs movement.
If you’re tired of hesitation, internal debate, and analysis that leads nowhere, this message is for you.
Not because it costs money- but because it costs movement.
If you’re tired of hesitation, internal debate, and analysis that leads nowhere, this message is for you.
February 8, 2026 at 4:12 PM
Comfort is more expensive than you think.
Not because it costs money- but because it costs movement.
If you’re tired of hesitation, internal debate, and analysis that leads nowhere, this message is for you.
Not because it costs money- but because it costs movement.
If you’re tired of hesitation, internal debate, and analysis that leads nowhere, this message is for you.
“Most people self-sabotage with self-defeating attitudes and behaviors long before anyone stops them.”
- Shane Parrish
- Shane Parrish
January 25, 2026 at 1:14 PM
“Most people self-sabotage with self-defeating attitudes and behaviors long before anyone stops them.”
- Shane Parrish
- Shane Parrish
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.”
- Steve Jobs
- Steve Jobs
January 25, 2026 at 1:13 PM
“Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life.”
- Steve Jobs
- Steve Jobs
"The truest form of intelligence is designing the life you want to live."
- Graham Weaver
- Graham Weaver
January 23, 2026 at 12:13 AM
"The truest form of intelligence is designing the life you want to live."
- Graham Weaver
- Graham Weaver
"The ultimate form of preparation is not planning for a specific scenario, but a mindset that can handle uncertainty."
- James Clear
- James Clear
January 23, 2026 at 12:11 AM
"The ultimate form of preparation is not planning for a specific scenario, but a mindset that can handle uncertainty."
- James Clear
- James Clear
"If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them."
- C.S. Lewis
- C.S. Lewis
January 15, 2026 at 11:56 PM
"If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them."
- C.S. Lewis
- C.S. Lewis
“…comparison is a poor use of energy. You were not meant to inhabit someone else's story. You have your own work to do. The goal is not to beat their life, the goal is to live your life.”
- James Clear
- James Clear
January 15, 2026 at 11:53 PM
“…comparison is a poor use of energy. You were not meant to inhabit someone else's story. You have your own work to do. The goal is not to beat their life, the goal is to live your life.”
- James Clear
- James Clear
“Are you continuing to do it mostly because it makes you feel interested and alive — or are you continuing to do it mostly because you know what to expect and you're hesitant to make a change?”
- James Clear
- James Clear
3-2-1: On obsessions, what you can control, and the power of decisive action
3 IDEAS FROM ME I. “You can't make time go faster or success come sooner. The only thing you can control is the next action.” II. “There are two ways to grow: by adding or by shedding. Do you need to...
jamesclear.com
January 8, 2026 at 11:44 PM
“Are you continuing to do it mostly because it makes you feel interested and alive — or are you continuing to do it mostly because you know what to expect and you're hesitant to make a change?”
- James Clear
- James Clear
“The point of these four comparisons is not that history repeats. It is that history reveals. It can help us see around corners, into possible futures.”
- Timothy Snyder
- Timothy Snyder
Venezuela: The Precedents
And America: The Future
open.substack.com
January 4, 2026 at 1:43 PM
“The point of these four comparisons is not that history repeats. It is that history reveals. It can help us see around corners, into possible futures.”
- Timothy Snyder
- Timothy Snyder
“If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies."
- Nadine Stair, 85 years old
The point isn’t barefoot walks. It’s being awake to what matters.
- Nadine Stair, 85 years old
The point isn’t barefoot walks. It’s being awake to what matters.
January 4, 2026 at 12:27 PM
“If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I would pick more daisies."
- Nadine Stair, 85 years old
The point isn’t barefoot walks. It’s being awake to what matters.
- Nadine Stair, 85 years old
The point isn’t barefoot walks. It’s being awake to what matters.
“Ninety percent of success can be boiled down to consistently doing the obvious thing for an uncommonly long period of time without convincing yourself that you're smarter than you are.”
- Shane Parrish
- Shane Parrish
January 4, 2026 at 12:07 PM
“Ninety percent of success can be boiled down to consistently doing the obvious thing for an uncommonly long period of time without convincing yourself that you're smarter than you are.”
- Shane Parrish
- Shane Parrish
“Superpowers you can choose:
Ability to change yourself & your mind
Not taking things personally
Not needing to prove you're right
Careful selection of all relationships
Staying calm
Being alone without being lonely
Being ok with being uncomfortable
Thinking for oneself”
- Shane Parrish
Ability to change yourself & your mind
Not taking things personally
Not needing to prove you're right
Careful selection of all relationships
Staying calm
Being alone without being lonely
Being ok with being uncomfortable
Thinking for oneself”
- Shane Parrish
January 4, 2026 at 12:05 PM
“Superpowers you can choose:
Ability to change yourself & your mind
Not taking things personally
Not needing to prove you're right
Careful selection of all relationships
Staying calm
Being alone without being lonely
Being ok with being uncomfortable
Thinking for oneself”
- Shane Parrish
Ability to change yourself & your mind
Not taking things personally
Not needing to prove you're right
Careful selection of all relationships
Staying calm
Being alone without being lonely
Being ok with being uncomfortable
Thinking for oneself”
- Shane Parrish
“The most frightened people are the people who don’t travel. Fear is for people who don’t get out very much.”
- Rick Steves
- Rick Steves
Rick Steves Says Hold On to Your Travel Dreams
The guidebook guru discusses a year and a half without seeing Europe, the next chapter in post-pandemic travel, and why you should order whatever beverage the locals are having.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
December 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
“The most frightened people are the people who don’t travel. Fear is for people who don’t get out very much.”
- Rick Steves
- Rick Steves
“Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when they are young nor weary in the search when they have grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.”
- Epicurus
- Epicurus
December 28, 2025 at 4:47 PM
“Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when they are young nor weary in the search when they have grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.”
- Epicurus
- Epicurus
“Misinformation is more dangerous than no information at all.”
- Charles Kingsley
- Charles Kingsley
December 28, 2025 at 4:27 PM
“Misinformation is more dangerous than no information at all.”
- Charles Kingsley
- Charles Kingsley
"It is nearly impossible to have your best idea the first time you think about something.
The most likely way to uncover important insights is to frequently revisit a problem. The longer you're in the game, the more ideas bubble up to the surface.
Time unlocks insights."
- James Clear
The most likely way to uncover important insights is to frequently revisit a problem. The longer you're in the game, the more ideas bubble up to the surface.
Time unlocks insights."
- James Clear
December 25, 2025 at 6:47 PM
"It is nearly impossible to have your best idea the first time you think about something.
The most likely way to uncover important insights is to frequently revisit a problem. The longer you're in the game, the more ideas bubble up to the surface.
Time unlocks insights."
- James Clear
The most likely way to uncover important insights is to frequently revisit a problem. The longer you're in the game, the more ideas bubble up to the surface.
Time unlocks insights."
- James Clear
“Self-judgment gets nothing done. Constantly berating yourself to do things from a sense of self-imposed obligation – with the feeling that you absolutely have to do them, in order to count as an adequate human – is a miserable way to live.”
- Oliver Burkeman
- Oliver Burkeman
December 21, 2025 at 11:30 AM
“Self-judgment gets nothing done. Constantly berating yourself to do things from a sense of self-imposed obligation – with the feeling that you absolutely have to do them, in order to count as an adequate human – is a miserable way to live.”
- Oliver Burkeman
- Oliver Burkeman
“You have to train before the race, not after. You have to build the skill before you get the job that requires it. You have to be trustworthy for years before anyone trusts you with something important. The bill comes first. The reward comes later.”
- Shane Parrish
- Shane Parrish
December 14, 2025 at 8:12 PM
“You have to train before the race, not after. You have to build the skill before you get the job that requires it. You have to be trustworthy for years before anyone trusts you with something important. The bill comes first. The reward comes later.”
- Shane Parrish
- Shane Parrish
“There’s a specific exhaustion that comes from constantly shape-shifting to fit what you think people want. I call it type 2 burnout. You’re not overworked, you’re just working against your own grain.”
- Dipa Halder
- Dipa Halder
December 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
“There’s a specific exhaustion that comes from constantly shape-shifting to fit what you think people want. I call it type 2 burnout. You’re not overworked, you’re just working against your own grain.”
- Dipa Halder
- Dipa Halder
"Habits are either the best or the worst things in the world; they either carry us to heaven or hurl us to hell. Form only those that will prove an honor to you."
- Philip Dormer Stanhope
- Philip Dormer Stanhope
December 4, 2025 at 10:18 PM
"Habits are either the best or the worst things in the world; they either carry us to heaven or hurl us to hell. Form only those that will prove an honor to you."
- Philip Dormer Stanhope
- Philip Dormer Stanhope
“Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.”
- David Foster Wallace
- David Foster Wallace
November 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
“Learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.”
- David Foster Wallace
- David Foster Wallace
“Wrong decisions are part of life. Being able to make them work anyway is one of the abilities of those who are successful.”
- Warren Buffett
- Warren Buffett
November 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
“Wrong decisions are part of life. Being able to make them work anyway is one of the abilities of those who are successful.”
- Warren Buffett
- Warren Buffett
“…I’m very particular about who I spend my time with because I do believe that there are genuinely energy vampires and energy catalysts in humans.”
- Harley Finkelstein
- Harley Finkelstein
November 23, 2025 at 10:25 PM
“…I’m very particular about who I spend my time with because I do believe that there are genuinely energy vampires and energy catalysts in humans.”
- Harley Finkelstein
- Harley Finkelstein
“Reading gives you pattern recognition for problems you haven't faced yet.
Having someone who solved the same problem you're facing whispering the answer in your ear is basically a cheat code.”
- Shane Parrish
Having someone who solved the same problem you're facing whispering the answer in your ear is basically a cheat code.”
- Shane Parrish
November 23, 2025 at 10:23 PM
“Reading gives you pattern recognition for problems you haven't faced yet.
Having someone who solved the same problem you're facing whispering the answer in your ear is basically a cheat code.”
- Shane Parrish
Having someone who solved the same problem you're facing whispering the answer in your ear is basically a cheat code.”
- Shane Parrish