- “Here, I made this.” – Seth Godin
- “What’s the one thing you can do, such that by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary?” – Gary Keller
- “Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Simplify to amplify.” –
- “It Is What It Is.” –
- “To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
- “Action expresses priorities.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- I am enough.
- “Real artists ship.” – Steve Jobs
- “If we teach as we taught yesterday, we rob our children of tomorrow.” – John Dewey
- “Things that are easy to do are just as easy not to do.” – Jeff Olson
- What’s happening?
- What just happened?
- “How shall I think about this?” – George Mutale
- “This changes everything.”
- I live here.
- Other people live here.
- All of nature lives here.
- Decide
- What’s going to happen?
- “Do you have a big enough Why?”
- Copy
- You don’t have to do anything
- Can you Copy?
- “Who we think we are is why we do what we do. We live in our stories, and we live according to them.” – Thomas Asacker
- “What will make today exciting?” – George Mutale
- “Count your pennies and the dollars will take care of themselves.” – ?
- “My life is my message.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- What is your strongest message?
- “To be able to process the signals in spite of the noise, that’s the point.” – George Mutale
- “No one will truly invest in you, but you.” – Tasha Eurich
- Grow, and build on
- What does freedom look like?
- “Does it matter?”
- “Does it add value?”
- “Change is the point.” – Seth Godin
- “Disconnect yourself from the outcome.” – Julianne Harvey
- “If there were no limits or restrictions, what would you be doing right now?” – George Mutale
- “We all become the stories we tell ourselves.” – Tom Asacker
- “Always do what you are afraid to do.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “You are your process.” – Jim Benson
- “Flexibility trumps perfection.” – David Allen
- “Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.” – David Allen
- “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain
- “Every minute you spend in your life is either spent bringing you closer to your goals or moving you away from your goals.” – Bo Bennett
- “Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.” – Henry Ford
- “What happens is fact, not truth. Truth is what we think about what happens.” – Robert McKee
- “If it’s finite, it’s possible.” – George Mutale
- “It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.” – Lucius Annaeus Seneca
- “The mind is the worst place to store things.” – George Mutale
- “If you do tomorrow what you did today, you will get tomorrow what you got today.” – Benjamin Franklin
- “Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.” – Pablo Picasso
- “Becoming is better than being.” – Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
- “We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage.” – Abraham Maslow
- “When it comes to solving my own problems, I’m an inside trader.” – George Mutale
- “Success is hacking your mind and finally figuring out what works for you.” – George Mutale
- Today just has to be better than yesterday.
- “This too shall pass.” – ?
- Seek clarity.
- “90% percent of everything is crap.” – Sturgeon’s revelation
- “The customer is the most important part of the production line.” – W. Edwards Deming
- “Value trumps cool. Period.” – @neoinnovate
- “…don’t confuse your to do list or your outputs without taking into account what the outcomes of that to do list are there to achieve.” – Wil Reynolds
- “The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.” – Samuel Johnson
- “Premature optimization is the root of all evil.” – Donald Knuth
- “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “As hard as it may be to believe this, there’s only ever one best thing to do next.” – George Mutale
- Don’t Repeat Yourself – DRY
- “Do. Or do not. There is no try. – Yoda”
- “Deploy code to production everyday.” – George Mutale
- Plan, Do, Check, Act/Adapt
- “Measure twice, cut once.”
- The 5 Whys
- If it was perfect, what would it look like?
- How hard can it be?
- “Make easy things easy and hard things possible.” – Larry Wall
- No job is so important, and no service is so urgent, that we cannot take time to perform our work safely.” – Bell System
- “No” is a complete sentence. – Anne Lamott
- “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao-tzu
- “Expenses rise to meet income.” – Parkinson’s Law
- “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.” – Parkinson’s Law
- “Do you know how I know I’m not doing too many projects? I still watch TV.” – George Mutale
- “If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” – Abraham Maslow, Maslow’s hammer
- “If you were only able to develop one product, what would it be?” – George Mutale
- “Who do you think you are?”, “Who are you?”
- Lower your expectations.
- Lower your expectations further.
- Show me how this is complicated
- “It cannot be about knowing it all, there’s always more to know.” – George Mutale
- “It cannot be about remembering it all, for what we don’t use we lose.” – George Mutale