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Today's quote was submitted by Cassandra

Ray Dalio said “Pain plus reflection equals progress.” I can relate to this in many ways. Have you ever been in the middle of something bad, and you just start to laugh? That's an unusual thing, but we do that all the time now. We realize that we're going to laugh later, so if we can just fast forward to that part quicker, it really does help things somehow. We are finishing a basement project right now. There is a room that used to be a bathroom. Now it's a laundry room. Apparently, when the mirror was screwed to the wall, they hit a sewer pipe. That was in the 1990s, but the screw plugged the hole until I removed it. Then we had a new room, mostly done, with a leak we couldn't understand. After the removal of a perfectly good chunk of the wall, we found the tiny hole and we fixed it. We could have been angry, but instead we laughed.

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Today's quote was submitted by Brent

Warren Buffett said “Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.” This is a great quote. I often think about the generation before me. They built so many things for their community. If you drive around most small towns, you'll see baseball fields, parks and other community spaces that were established just over fifty years ago. My generation benefited from these places, the generation after me also continues to benefit from these places. But at some point, it was just a chunk of ground. Someone had to have the vision to make it more. The vision alone didn't do anything. Someone had to raise the money to make it happen, then someone had to do the work to actually build it. I feel like my generation has let future generations down a little bit. We had these places, but what have we done to add more?

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Today's quote was submitted by Danny

Jeff Bezos said “If you double the number of experiments you do per year, you’re going to double your inventiveness.” This is so true. A little over twenty years ago I took a job as a sales manager at a group of radio stations in Nebraska. We had five stations and twenty sales people. I tried to get them all to go out to see more people... that's more opportunities to say yes! To create more time, I took away some of the things they had to each day. Things they didn't like to do anyway. It created about an extra hour for 20 people... that's like hiring two additional salespeople. We watched the number of calls go up, closely followed by the number of sales and the number of happy people. The clients were happy because they were getting more business and the salespeople were happy because they were making more money!

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Today's quote was submitted by Bryan

Louis Pasteur said "A little science distances you from God, but a lot of science brings you nearer to Him". I had a chance to meet the author of a book called More Than A Carpenter. This quote instantly reminded me of him. He was a student who was on a mission to scientifically prove that God didn't exist, but he instead ended up becoming a true believer that now helps win over others who question their faith. The thing that stood out most. He said Jesus was either a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. There is no 4^th option. He was either the Lord, or he was not. If he was not he either knew he was not and lied, or even he didn't know and he was a lunatic. Then he looked at the life of Jesus to see which option fit best. There were many examples that ruled out two of the three options to leave him to believe that Jesus was indeed the Lord.

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Today's quote was submitted by Kevin

Miles Davis said "If you're not nervous, you're not paying attention." I love this quote. It emphasizes that feeling anxious or nervous is a sign of engagement, respect for the task, and awareness of the risks involved, particularly in creative or high-stakes situations. It highlights that nerves are not a weakness but a catalyst for creativity and alertness. I've been helping business owners with their marketing and advertising for over thirty years. When it comes down to it, that is officially sales. I need to sell them on working with me, but I also need to sell them on each idea along the way. In sales, you're not going to get a yes every time. Sometimes it's not going to be what YOU want it to be. Does that make me nervous or anxious sometimes? Of course. But I understand that no is an acceptable answer, it means, lets try something else!