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  • What Is Important is Seldom Urgent

    “What is important is seldom urgent and what is urgent is seldom important.” – Dwight Eisenhower

  • How You Read

    “How often you read something is immaterial; how you read it is crucial.” – Virginia Voeks (from 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less)).

  • Big Problems, Small Solutions

    “Big problems are rarely solved with commensurately big solutions. Instead, they are most often solved by a sequence of small solutions, sometimes over weeks, sometimes over decades.” —Chip and Dan Heath, Switch. Posted on LinkedIn by Peter Vande Hey.

  • Work Smarter

    “Those who only know what they do, work harder. Those who also know WHY they do what they do, work smarter.” – Simon Sinek Work Smarter.

  • If You Don’t Have Time to Do It Right.

    “If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” – John Wooden. From Brain Food.

  • Are You Showing Up to Prove or Improve?

    “Don’t show up to prove. Show up to improve.” – Simon Sinek

  • The Ultimate Measure of a Man

    “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others.” – Martin Luther King Jr.  

  • Demonstrate Experience Without Doing Work for Free

    James Laurain has found a brilliant way to demonstrate his copyrighting expertise with #linkedinadrewrites It’s one thing to tell someone you’re good at something, it’s another thing to show it. And it’s something else entirely if you can show it without doing their work for free. I’ll definitely keep this idea in my back pocket…

  • Take Care of Those in Your Charge

    “Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.” – Simon Sinek Leadership as it ought to be.

  • 11 Self-Improvement Books

    This is a spur of the moment word vomit. A shorter description don’t mean I’m less excited about a book, I just probably haven’t written about it before. #1: The Bible The Bible has had more influence on shaping me into who I am today than any other book. It is the source of God’s…