Tonight I gave a speech featuring the many things I have learned from the people I get to work with on a regular basis.
What follows isn’t that, but a brief list of nuggets or “isms” from that speech that I thought were worth sharing—even to the reader who has never met them. Enjoy 🙂
- Kindness is always in fashion.
- Adventures are the real currency in life.
- Always have something to look forward to.
- Try to keep a night saved for the girls… or the boys.
- Any day that consists of “went to the gym” is a great day.
- The real benefit of ‘more’ is that we get to give back more.
- Taking things seriously is important—but so is taking things lightly.
- Work just as hard when there’s 2 in the room as you would when there’s 40.
- Sometimes the claps from one, true fan can ring louder than the standing ovation received from a thousand spectators.
- The best way to start a conversation, no matter how hard, is to walk directly up to the person, sometimes cornering them, and dive right in.
- Always bet on yourself—the path might not always be clear, but the inner resolve and grit that’s guided us safely before will do so again.
- Being honest upfront and well in advance of what might require honesty—saves everybody (mostly ourselves) time and headache.
- Taking pictures at each step of the way makes for an incredible look back at a journey you didn’t even realize you were exponentially changing on.
- The time it takes to construct a funny, witty, random, outrageous, where-in-the-heck-did-that-come-from text or comment… is worth every minute of invested time.