Shortcuts are deceiving.
Most of us choose the fake shortcuts over the real ones.
The fakes ones look interesting now but cut you short in the long run.
The real ones look like inconvenient detours now but pay off in the long run.
Real change happens with consistent persistence.
Drip. Drip. Drip.
Have the discipline to mind yesterday’s important while tending to today’s urgent.
You’re wasting your time by getting hung up on ‘___ as possible’ (as high…, as fast…, as small…).
You’d rather obsess about ‘___ enough’ (high…, fast…, small…).
Roger Bannister accomplished the impossible by creating a series of possible steps and meeting those milestones.
It seems safer to escape and shift the blame.
However, the best way to escape your problem is to solve it.
Stop running away and run after it.
Ad boards can reveal inconvenient things about our product and our approach that we wish weren’t true.
Refutations are as valuable as confirmations.
Now that you know about the spinach caught in your teeth, you can do something about it.
They have the same dreams, same hopes, and same fears as you.
If you can’t find common ground, move to higher ground.
Working as one has become a necessity. It’s not a luxury that we can live without.
This is not the ‘90s and we are not the Baby Boomers.
It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become.
It’s not about who we are, it’s about who we can become.
