Inspiring Ideas

The world's greatest achievers were first inspired by something or someone. Who inspired you today?

TAKING ACTION TODAY

September 18, 2023

"Any observant local knows more than any visiting scientist. Always. No exceptions."

-Novelist, Paulo Coelho

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THE POWER OF PAYING ATTENTION

September 11, 2023

"Any observant local knows more than any visiting scientist. Always. No exceptions."

- Biologist, Roger Payne

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HOW TO LEARN

September 04, 2023

"Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn."

-Benjamin Franklin

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MARK YOUR PATH

August 28, 2023

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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PLAYING LIFE LIKE A BASEBALL

August 21, 2023

"Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game."

-Babe Ruth

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STEER YOUR COURSE

August 14, 2023

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

-Dr. Seuss

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BE DIFFERENT

August 07, 2023

“If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you’ve launched too late.”

-Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn

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FLAME YOUR LIFE ACHIEVEMENTS

July 31, 2023

“Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.”

-Golda Meir, fourth Prime Minister of Israel

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HOW TO IMPROVE

July 24, 2023

“Anything that is measured and watched improves.”

-Bob Parsons, founder of GoDaddy

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EARLY APPLE COMPUTER CORE PRINCIPLES AND PHILOSOPHY: EMPATHY, FOCUS AND IMPUTE

July 17, 2023

"Empathy. We will truly understand their needs better than any other company.

Focus. In order to do a good job of those things we decide to do we must eliminate all of the unimportant opportunities.

Impute. People DO judge a book by its cover. We may have the best product, the highest quality, the most useful software, etc.; if we present them in a slipshod manner, they will be perceived as slipshod; if we present them in a creative, professional manner, we will impute the desired qualities."

-Mike Markkula, an electrical engineer and investor who worked alongside Steve Jobs and eventually became the first chairman of Apple Computer

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THE VALUE OF KNOWING YOURSELF

July 10, 2023

"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you."

-Carl Jung, the Influential Psychiatrist

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HOW TO MAKE GREAT DECISIONS

July 03, 2023

"Most of us have weak decision-making muscles. We do not realize what it means to make a real decision. We fail to recognize the force of change that a truly congruent, committed decision makes.

The word "decision" comes from Latin roots, with de meaning "down" or "away from" and caedere meaning "to cut." Therefore, a decision means cutting from any other possibility. A true decision means you are committed to achieving a result and cutting yourself off from any other possibility.

Committed decisions show up in two places: your calendar and your bank account. No matter what you say you value, or even think your priorities are, you have only to look at last year's calendar and bank account to see the decisions you have made about what you truly value.

See how you have reserved your time. Look at your expenditures. Those are the trails to the decisions you have made."

-Author, Carole Hildebrand

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INTELLECTUAL HUMILITY AND LEARNING FROM OTHERS

June 26, 2023

"Remember, always, that everything you know, and everything everyone knows, is only a model. Get your model out there where it can be viewed. Invite others to challenge your assumptions and add their own."

-Scientist and systems engineer, Donella Meadows

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KEEP FREEDOM

June 19, 2023

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."

- President, Ronald Reagan

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GOING FOR GREATNESS AT WORK

June 12, 2023

"Our companies ran at higher velocity, with higher standards and a narrower focus than most. Going faster, maintaining higher standards and with a narrower aperture. Sounds simple? The question is how you go about amping up your organization. How much faster do you run? How much higher are your standards? How hard do you focus? It is a performance ‘triad’ because they amplify each other. The compound effect can be electrifying.

It is breathtaking how slow, substandard and unfocused many companies out there get through the day. And think nothing of it. The lack of energy is palatable. There is performance upside everywhere. As a leader, your opportunity is to reset in each of these dimensions. You do it in every single conversation, meeting, and encounter. You look for and exploit every single opportunity to step up the pace, expect a higher quality outcome, and narrow the plane of attack. Then, you relentlessly follow up and prosecute at every turn."

-Frank Slootman, CEO of Snowflake Computing

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WHY PERSISTENCE MATTERS - USE THE EXAMPLE OF A RIVER

June 05, 2023

"To a river, as to any natural force, an obstruction is merely an opportunity. For the river's nature is to flow; it is not just spatial in dimension, but temporal as well. All things must yield to the impulse of the water in time, if not today then tomorrow or in a thousand years. If its way is obstructed then it goes around the obstruction or under it or over it and, flowing past it, wears it away. Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep its nature and bide its time, like a caged wild animal alert for the slightest opening. In time it will have its way; the dam like the ancient cliffs will be carried away piecemeal in the currents."

-Farmer and writer, Wendell Berry

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HOW TO BE BOLD

May 29, 2023

"It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission."

-Grace Hopper,  a pioneer in computer programming and a US Navy rear admiral

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THE SOURCE OF INSPIRATION

May 22, 2023

"Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination. It may include doctors, teachers, gardeners — I could list a hundred more professions. Their work becomes one continuous adventure as long as they manage to keep discovering new challenges in it. Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous I don't know."

-Poet, Wislawa Szymborska

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WISDOM

May 15, 2023

"Easy to learn facts. The trick in life is to learn wisdom."

Dennis Prager

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SHAPING THE WORLD

May 08, 2023

"The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think."

- Entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Marc Andreessen

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A RULE FOR LIFE

May 01, 2023

"If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, that is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."

- Designer, poet, and artist, William Morris

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HOW TO BE RESILIENT

April 24, 2023

"In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."

- Philosopher and author, Albert Camus

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WHAT MAKES US HAPPY

April 17, 2023

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."

-Priest and novelist, Charles Kingsley

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ON BUSYNESS

April 10, 2023

"Busy is a decision. We do the things we want to do, period. If we say we are too busy, it is just shorthand for the thing being “not important enough” or “not a priority.” Busy is not a badge. You don’t find the time to make things, you make the time to do things."

-Writer, artist, and podcast host, Debbie Millman

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WHAT IS PRODUCTIVITY?

April 3, 2023

“Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One person gets only a week’s value out of a year while another gets a full year’s value out of a week.”

- Charles Richards

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INSPIRATION

March 27, 2023

"Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it."

-Madeleine L’Engle, the award-winning writer and poet

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THE IMPORTANCE OF HABITS IN YOUR LIFE

March 20, 2023

"It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a person’s life is made up of nothing but the habits they accumulated during the first half."

-Fyodor Dostoyevsky, often considered one of the greatest writers in history

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HOW TO KEEP IT FUN

March 6, 2023

“It’s impossible to compete with someone who genuinely cares and is having fun.”

- Khe Hy

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CREATING CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE

February 27, 2023

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

-Architect, writer, and inventor, Buckminster Fuller

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THE VALUE OF RISK

February 20, 2023

"Risk is an essential need of the soul. The absence of risk produces a kind of boredom which paralyses in a different way from fear, but almost as much."

- Philosopher, Simone Weil

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VALUE OF SMALL CONTRIBUTIONS

February 13, 2023

"May I be the tiniest nail in the house of the universe, tiny but useful."

- Poet, Mary Oliver

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INTERSECTION OF THINKING AND DOING

February 6, 2023

"My observation is that the doers are the major thinkers. The people that really create the things that change this industry are both the thinker and doer in one person. And if we really go back and we examine, you know, did Leonardo have a guy off to the side that was thinking five years out in the future what he would paint or the technology he would use to paint it? Of course not. Leonardo was the artist, but he also mixed all his own paints. He also was a fairly good chemist. He knew about pigments, knew about human anatomy. And combining all of those skills together, the art and the science, the thinking and the doing, was what resulted in the exceptional result. And there is no difference in our industry. The people that have really made the contributions have been the thinkers and the doers." 

- Steve Jobs (@apple)

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YOU ALWAYS HAVE A 2nd CHANCE

January 30, 2023

"I know now, after fifty years, that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning, never stops. The whole of life is about another chance, and while we are alive, till the very end, there is always another chance."

- Writer Jeanette Winterson

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AT THE START OF A NEW YEAR!

January 23, 2023

"At the end of each year, I ask myself two questions:

1) What do I want to create in this New Year?

And, perhaps even more importantly,

2) What do I want to let go of?"

- Author Patricia Digh

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IMPORTANCE OF AMBITION IN POETRY AND LIFE

January 19, 2023

"I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. An ambitious project—but sensible, I think. ... If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best."

-Poet Donald Hall

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HOW TO AGE WELL

January 16, 2023

"The goal of life is to die young — as late as possible!"

-Anthropologist Ashley Montagu

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LISTENING AND LEARNING

January 9, 2023

"I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read."

-Playwright, poet, and writer, Samuel Johnson

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HOW YOU CREATE CHANGE

January 1, 2023

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

-Architect, writer, and inventor Buckminster Fuller

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POWER OF THOUGHTS

December 26, 2022

"Every thought a person dwells upon, whether he expresses it or not, either damages or improves his life."

-Writer and suffragist, Lucy Mallory

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HOW TO SHAPE YOUR WORLD

December 19, 2022

"The world is a very malleable place. If you know what you want, and you go for it with maximum energy and drive and passion, the world will often reconfigure itself around you much more quickly and easily than you would think"

-Entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Marc Andreessen 

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RULE FOR LIFE

December 12, 2022

"He who angers you conquers you."

-Sister Elizabeth Kenny—a self-trained nurse who made major contributions to the treatment of polio and provided care during World War I

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RULE FOR LIFE

December 5, 2022

"If you want a golden rule that will fit everything, this is it: Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful."

-Designer, poet, and artist William Morris

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HOW TO PICK YOUR CAREER

November 28, 2022

"It's only work if you would rather be doing something else. Find a way to carve a career out of what you already want to do."

-@JamesClear

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MINDSET, STRATEGY, AND RESILIENCE

November 21, 2022

"It's not the load that breaks you down; it’s the way you carry it."

-Dancer, actress, and activist, Lena Horne

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HOW TO MAKE MEANINGFUL CONNECTIONS IN LIFE AND BUSINESS

November 14, 2022

"Understanding a person's hunger and responding to it is one of the most potent tools you'll ever discover for getting through to anyone you meet in business or your personal life."

-Psychiatrist, Mark Goulston

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QUESTION CONSTANTLY

November 11, 2022

"Any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life."

-Wisława Szymborska, poet and recipient of the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature

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BEING PRODUCTIVE

November 08, 2022

"Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One person gets only a week's value out of a year while another gets a full year's value out of a week."

-Charles Richards

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IMPORTANCE OF GUTS

November 05, 2022

"Above everything else I’ve done, I’ve always said I’ve had more guts than I’ve got talent."

-Dolly Parton

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WHAT IS GRIT?

October 28, 2022

"Grit has two components: passion and perseverance."

-Angela Duckworth

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JUDGING YOURSELF

October 21, 2022

"Compare yourself to who you were yesterday, not to who someone else is today."

-Jordan B. Peterson

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ALIGNING THOUGHTS AND ACTIONS

October 10, 2022

"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."

-Freya Stark, Explorer and Travel Writer

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INTELLECTUAL HUMILITY

October 2, 2022

"A lot of smart people think they’re way smarter than they are, and therefore they do worse than dumb people. And it’s very common to be utterly brilliant and think you’re way the hell smarter than you are."

-Investor and businessman, Charlie Munger

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HOW TO BE PRODUCTIVE

September 26, 2022

"Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One person gets only a week's value out of a year while another gets a full year's value out of a week."

-Investor and businessman Charlie Munger

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HOW TO STAY ENGAGED IN LIFE AS WE AGE

September 21, 2022

"The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished."

-Kevin Kelly, entrepreneur, author, and photographer

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LEARNING YOUR PATH FORWARD

September 18, 2022

"Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from. There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even your bathtub."

-Psychiatrist Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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WHEN DOES INSPIRATION APPEAR

September 12, 2022

"Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it."

Madeleine L'Engle,  the award-winning writer and poet

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BUILD GOOD HABITS EARLY IN LIFE

September 05, 2022

"It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a person's life is made up of nothing but the habits they accumulated during the first half.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, often considered one of the greatest writers in history

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WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CREATIVITY AND EFFICIENCY?

September 02, 2022

"A way to think about it is, that innovation requires variation. And in manufacturing—six sigma, all that stuff—you're trying to reduce variation.

The fundamental manufacturing paradigm is to reduce variation, and the fundamental creative, innovation paradigm is to increase it."

-Reed Hastings, founder and CEO of Netflix

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WHAT SIZE PERSON ARE YOU?

August 29, 2022

"You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you."

- Author and futurist Robert Anton Wilson

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HOW TO STAY MOTIVATED

August 22, 2022

"Almost everybody can stay excited for 2 or 3 months. A few people can stay excited for 2 or 3 years. But a winner will stay excited for 30 years or however long it takes to win."

- Insurance executive and entrepreneur Art Williams

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WHY HABITS MATTER

August 15, 2022

"The real reason habits matter is not because they can get you better results (although they can do that), but because they can change your beliefs about yourself."

- James Clear

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UNDERSTANDING THE GOLDILOCKS RULE

August 8, 2022

"The Goldilocks Rule states that humans experience peak motivation when working on tasks that are right on the edge of their current abilities."

- James Clear

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KNOWLEDGE IS A SHARED INSIGHT

August 1, 2022

"Anyone who acts without paying attention to what he is doing is wasting his life. I'd go so far as to say life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece."

- Marie-Christine Gasingirwa, a director at the Ministry of Education in Rwanda

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FOCUS IS IMPORTANT

July 19, 2022

"Anyone who acts without paying attention to what he is doing is wasting his life. I'd go so far as to say life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece."

- Music teacher and conductor Nadia Boulanger, who trained many of the leading composers and musicians of the 20th century

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NO NEED TO WORRY

July 19, 2022

"The time to worry is three months before a flight. Decide then whether or not the goal is worth the risks involved. If it is, stop worrying. To worry is to add another hazard."

- Amelia Earhart

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YOUR OBJECTIVE

July 9, 2022

"If you're always right, you're not learning. If you're never failing, you're not reaching. The objective is not to be right. The objective is to succeed. But if you're always winning, you're undershooting your potential."

- @jamesclear

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LIFE REWARDS COURAGE

July 7, 2022

"Life rewards courage.

The person who is brave enough to bet on something or someone—as long as they avoid irreversible mistakes like running out of cash or going to jail—is in a position to win.
"

- James Clear

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HOW HISTORY CHANGES

June 23, 2022

"It is the combination of character and circumstance which creates history."

- Henry Kissinger

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FOCUS ON YOUR STRENGTH

June 15, 2022

"If I could talk to myself twenty years ago, I would tell myself to focus on my strengths, and not on my weaknesses; on the things I could do and not the things I couldn’t do; to strive to excel and hone those skills to the point of excellence. That this was the best strategy to secure my future. I would say to myself that the only real obstacles you have are those you create for yourself."

- Painter Mariam Paré, who specializes in making paintings by mouth after suffering a spinal cord injury, offers some advice to her younger self

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CONNECTING THE DOTS

June 8, 2022

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do. You can’t connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backward."

- Steve Jobs

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HOW CHILDREN BECOME SUCCESSFUL

June 3, 2022

"For a child's life to be successful, the forces of composition have to be greater than the forces of decomposition."

- A Professor at Columbia University

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HOW TO DO GROUNDBREAKING WORK

May 20, 2022

"One of my guiding principles is don’t do anything that other people are doing. Always do something a little different if you can. The concept is that if you do it a little differently there is a greater potential for reward than if you do the same thing that other people are doing. I think that this kind of goal for one’s work, having obviously the maximum risk, would have the maximum reward no matter what the field may be."

- Electrical Engineer Seymour Cray, credited for inventing the supercomputing industry

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MAKE THE MOST OF WHAT YOU HAVE TODAY

May 17, 2022

"Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest."

- Painter Georgia O'Keeffe

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WHAT’S YOUR APPROACH TO PROBLEM SOLVING?

May 10, 2022

"Remove the branches of a thorn bush today and you'll avoid a scrape this year. But next year, you'll face the same problem again. Remove the root of the bush today, and the entire plant will die.  Are you solving problems at the branch level or the root level."

- @jamesclear

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FRESH EYES HELPS

May 9, 2022

"The gift of a beginner is fresh eyes.  The longer you're in a field, the harder it is to perceive new truths. Your mind is biased toward refining what you're already doing instead of exploring fresh terrain.  Take your expertise and apply it to something new."

- James Clear

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REMAINING A BEGINNER

May 5, 2022

"It is good for a professional to be reminded that his professionalism is only a husk, that the real person must remain an amateur, a lover of the work."

- Poet May Sarton  

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PEOPLE AND PENCILS

April 29, 2022

"No one is perfect – that’s why pencils have erasers."

-Wolfgang Rieb

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WHAT IS YOUR MINDSET?

April 28, 2022

“Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, weak minds discuss people.”

― Socrates

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COURAGE

April 20, 2022

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."

- Anaïs Nin

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WHEN TO SPEAK TRUTH

April 10, 2022

"All Truth is good to know. All truth is not good to say aloud."

- Former U.S. Ambassador to China Max Baucus

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ADVICE FROM A BIZ ROCKSTAR

April 1, 2022

"Understand the downside. Operate on the condition of no surprises. Look for opportunities with pent-up demand. Period."

- Sam Zell

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REAL OR IMAGINED PROBLEMS?

March 27, 2022

"If you're trying to solve a problem, it's better to go and actually make sure it's really a problem."

- Hiten Shah

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LIVE IN THE FUTURE

March 14, 2022

"Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead 20 years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then."

-Diana Ross

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A SIMPLE RECIPE FOR SUCCESS

March 9, 2022

"Think of many things. Do one."

- Portuguese proverb  

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IT'S A CHOICE

March 2, 2022

"There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering. I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary."

-Elon Musk

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START YOUR HIKE!

February 22, 2022

"Many situations in life are similar to going on a hike: the view changes once you start walking.  You don't need all the answers right now. New paths will reveal themselves if you have the courage to get started."

@jamesclear

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MISTAKES ARE GOOD

February 15, 2022

“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”

— George Bernhard Shaw.

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GOOD ADVICE ON CONFLICT RESOLUTION

February 9, 2022

"Never cut what you can untie"

-French moralist Joseph Joubert on dealing with conflict

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AUTO EVERYTHING IN 2022

January 26, 2022

Understand the trend of automation. So are we efficient enough yet?  Intelligent Automation (IA) is one of the trending buzzwords. Bill Gates believes automation to be a double-edged sword: "Automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."  IA lies at the intersection of robotics, artificial intelligence (AI) and business process management (BPM).  We humans need to stay in the front of the line!

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WHAT IS YOUR INBORN PATTERN IN LIFE?

January 18, 2022

What is an archetype?

Quote: “Archetypes are universal, inborn models of people, behaviors, or personalities that play a role in influencing human behavior. They were introduced by the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, who suggested that these archetypes were archaic forms of innate human knowledge passed down from our ancestors. In Jungian psychology, the archetypes represent universal patterns and images that are part of the collective unconscious. Jung believed that we inherit these archetypes much in the way we inherit instinctive patterns of behavior.”

What is your archetype?  Ray Dalio and team developed this website and system to help you figure it out.  Once you know your archetype, it will help you:

  • Understand yourself.
  • Understand others.
  • Help others understand you.

Mr. Dalio groups 28 archetypes into 10 categories representing a larger theme. Explore types you are similar to, and those are you are not, to understand yourself and others in a new way.

Curious to check out your pattern?  Click here: https://principlesyou.com/archetypes

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RESOLUTIONS NEED CONSTANT MOTIVATION

January 3, 2022

"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily."  

- Zig Ziglar

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LOOKING FORWARD TO 2022

January 1, 2022

"You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future."  

- Steve Jobs

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WISE VS. SMART

December 21, 2021

"There is no correlation between being smart and being wise."

-Jordan B Peterson

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ARE YOU A PATIENT PERSON?

November 30, 2021

"Most people optimize for the day ahead. A few people optimize for 1-2 years ahead. Almost nobody optimizes for 3-4 years ahead (or longer).
The person who is willing to delay gratification longer than most reduces competition and gains a decisive advantage.
Patience is power."

@jamesclear

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AS THANKSGIVING APPROACHES -- JFK SAID IT BEST -- GRATITUDE!

November 16, 2021

"As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."

- John F. Kennedy

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ARE YOU BORN WITH GRIT?

October 14, 2021

“The answer: no!  But, you do need to cultivate a growth mindset.” 

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WE ALL MOVE FORWARD

October 11, 2021

“Once you’re in an Uber,-- you can’t go back to hailing a cab in the rain.” 
 - Kulveer Taggar @zeusliving

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COMMUNICATE CLEARLY

October 9, 2021

"Check out the podcast with Ilan Dray where he shares the philosophy of his new book – which is to be authentic with yourself. And remember "At the end of the day --- it's all about communication."

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HOW WILL YOU FRAME YOURSELF?

October 4, 2021

"Your outcomes are a lagging measure of your habits. Your net worth is a lagging measure of your financial habits. Your weight is a lagging measure of your eating habits. Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits. Your clutter is a lagging measure of your cleaning habits. You get what you repeat." @JamesClear

#happy #instadaily #findinginspiration

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STEER YOUR COURSE

August 14, 2023

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose."

-Dr. Seuss

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