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October 2021

It is easy to sit up and take notice; what is difficult is getting up and taking action. - Honore de Balzac

Success Thought of the Day – 10/29/21

When you’re standing still waiting to merge, 55 MPH looks incredibly fast.   However, that perception changes once you merge onto the highway.

The same is true as you chase your purpose, and it will look like everyone is so far beyond you until you get into action.

The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it. - William James

Success Thought of the Day – 10/28/21

I had a little work to do while on vacation over the past few weeks as my wife and I celebrated over 25th anniversary. However, I didn’t mind, as I believe I am amidst my life’s work. The scenery didn’t hurt either! [Read more in the post]

Good questions outrank easy answers. - Paul Samuelson

Success Thought of the Day – 10/21/21

If you want to execute, get the answers, learn the “how.”   If you want to improve or innovate, understand the questions that led to the answers. [Read More in the Post]

Resources are the enemy of imagination. - Zoo

Success Thought of the Day – 10/20/21

“Scrappy” is an attribute associated with many bootstrapping entrepreneurs.  Their commitment to their passion and lack of resources allows their imagination to fill the gap and create solutions.

Don’t worry about what you don’t have; use everything that you do have.

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.  – Albert Einstein

Success Thought of the Day – 10/18/21

Revisit the problem that burdens you the most. For a moment, forget rules, best practices, case studies, and even the luminaries that previously worked on the problem. [Read More in the post]

If you're too big to serve, you're too small to lead. - Rich Wilkerson, Jr.

Success Thought of the Day – 10/14/21

Org charts would better portray leadership inversely printed with the leader at the bottom.

Leadership can be perceived as an authority from a distance. However, in the seat, leadership is serving others, helping them be their best, and collectively achieve the vision.