You know you are on to something when it is generative. If it leads somewhere. If it expands and enlarges people. If it spawns new ideas. We must make room for collaboration like this. It cannot be underestimated.

Yep- we are pretty much under surveillance everywhere we go these days. Not by the government per se. But by marketers. inc.com/victoria-salves/is-y…

Is it any wonder there aren't any super heroes around anymore? They don't have anywhere to change.

We don't always know how it will all play out. We don't know if we are going to win or not. The game can begin anyway.

Discipline and habits are important. What Eliud says is absolutely true. But you can also become a slave to the ritual, and forget why you are doing it in the first place. Keep the goal in mind, and if the habits are no longer serving the goal, be flexible enough to ditch them.

Small business is a lot harder than it looks from the outside. It gets so 'daily', and burn out is real. So entrepreneurs need both of these things: wisdom and joy, to keep going. If you aren't laughing at least once per day while working hard, you're doing something wrong.

Do you practice active listening? It really DOES take practice––mostly just to stop your racing mind. What if you used that energy to listen carefully enough to repeat back what that person just said, to make sure you understand them correctly? Escucha!

Happy Birthday Art Buchwald Oct 20, 1925 - Jan 17, 2007 Journalist for the W Post, & won the Pulitzer in 1982 & 1986. In a 2008 interview, Art confessed to carrying this quote in his pocket. This morning & every morning, this quote comforts me. Press on. #MakeMoreArt

Never underestimate the micro change. A one degree change in trajectory can land you in a completely different universe.

Hopefully your Monday is off to a great start, and you are using your head for something completely different.

Happy Birthday Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900 No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. Try to see things with new eyes today.

How do you remember to live in the moment? If you are always racing to the next moment, what happens to the one you're in? Enjoy the ride. Happy Friday.

We provide custom graphics for a local company that does small aircraft maintenance. They take their work very seriously. The one who wires the instrument panel gets to fly it first. Woah. That's called LEADERSHIP and confidence in your work.

I LOVE this quote by James Autry, retired executive from Meredith Publishing, featured at an I-80 rest stop in Iowa.

Don't give up too soon. You never know when the very next effort you make might be the next unforgettable thing that goes down in history for like forever.

Happy Birthday Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau October 14, 1801 – September 15, 1883 Belgian physicist and mathematician. He was one of the first people to demonstrate the illusion of a moving image, and the inventor of the phenakistiscope.

Happy Birthday E.E. Cummings October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962 "The most wasted of all days is one without laughter."

This is the equivalent of one photo on your phone today.

4.5 MB of data on 62,500 punched cards. And I'm old enough to remember when this was done.

Happy Birthday E.E. Cummings October 14, 1894 - September 3, 1962 "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."