Tom Schmidt

We experience our moments of purest joy at precisely those moments when we are causing it in others.

It is a truism of life—whatever we give out comes back to us multiplied. Which brings me back to the beginning of this message...

Author and screenwriter Ray Bradbury on the difference between critics and creators:

"Those who don't build must burn."

In the short term, you are as good as your intensity. In the long term, you are only as good as your consistency.

There comes a point where a person goes from "old enough to know better" to "too old to know better."

Charles Miller on balance:

"Spend a handful of hours a day going fast. Crush a gym session. Do deep work on a project you care about. Spend the rest of the day going slow. Take walks. Read books. Get a long dinner with friends. Either way, avoid the anxious middle where you never truly relax or truly move forward."

Margaret Thatcher’s famous warning: Eventually, you run out of other people’s money.

I'm a big fan of the "GPS Theory" when you miss a turn, your GPS doesn't judge you, it recalculates. No matter how many detours you take, it finds another way forward. Life works like that too. You'll make mistakes, but your destination doesn't vanish. The route just changes.

"You can't make time go faster or success come sooner. The only thing you can control is the next action."