I carry a small notepad with me to capture ideas, concepts, or just random points. Here is a list I compiled recently…

• Spend money to remove a negative (instead of adding a positive)

• At work, focus on your strengths, at home, focus on your weaknesses

• Everything will be hard at some point.

• Focus on the 20% of actions that will lead to 80% of the results

• Pay yourself first

• The worst case scenario is that I die. Whatever “it” is, is probably not that bad.

• A good simple life is not that expensive, we make it complex and pricey.

• Consider the opposite before you think to complain.

• There is a cost to everything – even convenience is just a delayed cost.

• Eat 1 ingredient food.

• 7 hours of sleep + 1 hour of exercise > 8 hrs of sleep + 0 hours of exercise

• Choose life… its always a better choice, its a sustainable idea, it always has been.

• Look for purpose not happiness, one is cyclical the other is persistent.

• Most people are the same and want to do good.

• Money is renewable time is not.

• Eliminate, then Reduce, then Automate, then Reuse, then Eliminate…

• Value time of silence, it lets the brain cool.

• Listen, Learn, Confirm, then Create.

• The opposite to “Love” is “Indifference” (not hate) … engage, have an opinion, and smile.

• Ask if this is a problem or solution. Focus on problems first.

• People run companies, not processes.

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