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# Mark David

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- [The Dodgers Win](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/the-dodgers-win/) - The Dodgers Win Nov. 27, 2025 By Mark David If you were lucky enough to watch the seven games of the World Series between the Dodgers and the Blue Jays, you were treated to great baseball and excellent leadership in action. The thrilling game seven resembled a heavyweight fight. Each team delivered massive blows, and
- [December 16, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-16-2025/) - "Those who are lifting the world upward and onward are those who encourage more than criticize." — Elizabeth Harrison
- [December 9, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-9-2025/) - "There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up." — Unknown
- [December 2, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-2-2025/) - "The best thing you can do each day is to reach out and do things for others." — Mark David
- [November 25, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-25-2025/) - "The most powerful experience is when someone gives the credit away to the team for a job well done. The glow of their achievement warms the room, and then some." — Susanne Berger
- [November 18, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-18-2025/) - "In order for me to look good, everyone around me needs to look good." — Doris Drury
- [November 11, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-11-2025/) - "Don't be afraid to step on the victory stand. Win with class and character. You've worked hard, you've paid the price and you deserve to be recognized. Just be sure to share the credit with others." — Howard Ferguson
- [How to Beat the Jitters](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/takeaways-the-mark-david-blog-2/) - How to Beat the Jitters (S.O.S.) March 5, 2015 by Mark David Tom Hanks used to throw up before performing a scene. Cher had to be physically pushed out on the stage to perform her first concerts. Young Warren Buffet was too shy and nervous to stand up and speak at his first stockholder meetings.
- [Start With the Vision](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/takeaways-the-mark-david-blog/) - Start With the Vision March 5, 2015 by Mark David I’ve noticed lately that a few business writers have implied that “Visioning” might be a waste of time. One went so far as to compare a Corporate Vision Statement to a “cute slogan---like a bumper sticker.” Well, here’s my take on that. In my work
- [Good Reasons to Stop Worrying](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/blog-1/) - Good Reasons to Stop Worrying June 16, 2015 by Mark David I am an old man and have known many troubles, most of which never happened. — Mark Twain Over the years I have coached many good friends and clients to make one simple change that immediately improved the quality of their lives and
- [Caring is a Huge Competitive Advantage](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/caring-is-a-huge-competitive-advantage/) - Caring is a Huge Competitive Advantage July 8, 2015 by Mark David When you care, people notice. If I had to pick one essential characteristic that consistently distinguishes great leaders, managers and companies from the rest of the pack, it would be this: It all boils down to those who really care, and those who really
- [When You’re Calling the Shots — How leaders make stress-free decisions.](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/when-youre-calling-the-shots-how-leaders-make-stress-free-decisions/) - When You're Calling the Shots. August 24, 2015 by Mark David How leaders make stress-free decisions. Somewhere along the line, someone probably advised you never to make snap decisions. When faced with a difficult choice, we are cautioned to “give it some thought,” or to “mull it over,” or to “sleep on it.”
- [Managing the Winds of Change](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/managing-the-winds-of-change/) - Managing the Winds of Change. October 27, 2015 by Mark David Lesson learned from a child's science project. An article in the Huffington Post lists 25 time-honored 4th Grade science projects that are still popular with today’s students. Looking back, you probably remember the top three from your own grade school days: The first
- [Follow Your “True North”](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/follow-your-true-north/) - Follow Your "True North" November 19, 2015 by Mark David Make Your Vision, Mission and Values Your Guiding Stars Our time on earth is limited. We can choose to do anything, but none of us gets to do everything. That’s why I encourage my clients to be very clear and specific about their values and
- [Knowing the Difference Between a Company's Vision, Mission and Values](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/knowing-the-difference-between-a-companys-vision-mission-and-values/) - Knowing the Difference Between a Company's Vision, Mission and Values January 5, 2016 by Mark David Here’s the “what, why and how” of great company culture. The guiding stars for any great enterprise are its Vision, Mission and Core Values. Here’s how I distinguish between them: Vision is the “What?” Your Vision statement answers the
- [Put Your Values Into Actions](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/put-your-values-into-actions/) - Put Your Values Into Action February 2, 2016 by Mark David Good companies list their Core Values, while great companies live them. Lots of companies these days post their Core Values on a poster or plaque in their entryway. Since I’m on the road a lot, I get to see quite a few of these
- [Develop a Shared Vision with Your Team](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/develop-a-shared-vision-with-your-team/) - Develop a Shared Vision With Your Team August 18, 2016 by Mark David Your willingness to create a Vision for your team is a statement of your belief in their potential. It also infuses your workplace with purpose, meaning, cohesion and spirit. Winning coaches start each “season” with a Vision in mind. Think of a
- [Drive Out Fear](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/drive-out-fear/) - Drive Out Fear September 1 2016 By Mark David What is the role of the leader? Is the leader supposed to strike fear into the hearts of his or her followers? Is the leader supposed to make sure that everyone is toeing the company line or conforming to the code of conduct? The truth is,
- [Communicate Openly](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/communicate-openly/) - Communicate Openly September 15 2016 By Mark David Years ago the IBM Company asked 500 executives from several different industries to write down their personal definition of “communication.” The definitions were different in several ways, but they were similar in one: Most people agreed that communication had something to do with being “two-way.” That’s an
- [High Expectations are Everything](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/high-expectations-are-everything/) - High Expectations are Everything September 29 2016 By Mark David There’s a big difference between wanting, believing, hoping and expecting. As a coach, you may “want” something to happen. You may “believe” it can happen. You may “hope” it will happen. But if you and your team don’t fully “expect” it to happen, it probably
- [Focus on the “Why”](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/focus-on-the-why/) - Focus on the “Why” October 13, 2016 By Mark David Most people manage the “what” and the “how,” but the best leaders manage the “why.” By helping their people understand and embrace the “why,” leaders are better able to inspire enthusiasm, trust and loyalty. Here’s how it works: Virtually everyone can tell you “what” they
- [HA! (Hold Accountable)](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/ha-hold-accountable/) - HA! (Hold Accountable) October 27, 2016 By Mark David Some favorite expressions of small children: “It’s not my fault. I couldn’t help it. They made me do it. I didn’t mean to. I forgot.” Some favorite expressions of small adults: “It’s not my job. No one told me. I can’t do everything. Don’t blame me.
- [Think Big](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/think-big/) - Think Big November 10, 2016 By Mark David Nothing energizes a team or organization faster or better than a big idea. If your company or department lacks enthusiasm—if your team members are bored—it’s time for a bold move. The moment you and your team set a new and exciting target, you create a gap between
- [Praise Progress](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/praise-progress/) - Praise Progress November 21, 2016 By Mark David Sincere praise is a powerful (but often overlooked) coaching and leadership tool. It’s powerful because it is not only needed but also appreciated by every person at every level throughout the entire organization. Simply put, everyone appreciates being appreciated. Here are a few insights about praise and
- [Truth and Trust Go Hand in Hand](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/truth-and-trust-go-hand-in-hand/) - Truth and Trust Go Hand in Hand December 1, 2016 By Mark David Here are four mental reminders that will contribute to your success as a leader and coach: To be a great coach, you must have the trust of your team. Trust cannot be demanded, it can only be earned. Trust is not earned
- [Confront Problems Head On](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/confront-problems-head-on/) - Confront Problems Head On December 15, 2016 By Mark David Good leaders have the attitude, “I will never dodge or avoid a problem.” They embrace the idea that a big part of leadership is anticipating, confronting and proactively solving problems with their people. In fact, if your team ever stops bringing difficult problems to you,
- [Celebrating Our 30th Anniversary](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/celebrating-our-30th-anniversary/) - Celebrating Our 30th Anniversary February 9, 2017 By Mark David A heartfelt thank you to our clients and friends for sharing the journey with us. “Give the world the best that you have and the best will come back to you.” That beautiful quote from Madeline Bridges captures the original spirit and intent that launched
- [Be Proactive](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/be-proactive/) - Be Proactive May 11, 2017 By Mark David “Planning is bringing the future into the present, so you can do something about it now.” ~ Alan Lakein Make proactive thinking a natural and consistent part of your makeup as a leader. With proactive thinking you don’t have to settle for life the way it comes
- [Build “Partnerships” with Your Team](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/build-partnerships-with-your-team/) - Build “Partnerships” with Your Team May 25, 2017 By Mark David Part-ner-ship: noun. A strong relationship between two or more people, usually involving close cooperation, mutual expectations, and shared responsibilities. Successful coaches focus on building solid, steady, long-term relationships with their team members. These relationships resemble partnerships because they ideally involve 1) close cooperation, 2)
- [Focus on Your Top 20% Responsibilities First](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/focus-on-your-top-20-responsibilities-first/) - Focus on Your Top 20% Responsibilities First June 8, 2017 By Mark David “It’s important to do things right, but it’s even more important to do the right things.” — Peter Drucker Time is one of the leader’s most precious resources, but distractions and activity traps are all around us. In today’s fast-paced world, we
- [Actions Versus Words](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/actions-versus-words/) - Actions Versus Words June 22, 2017 By Mark David “What you do speaks so loudly that I can no longer hear what you say.” ~ Proverb Here’s a useful little rule of thumb: To determine reality, simply compare a person’s words (what they “say” they do) with their actions (what they “actually” do). To be
- [An SOS for Stress](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/an-sos-for-stress/) - An SOS for Stress July 13, 2017 By Mark David “Don’t lose your head, it’s the best part of your body.” ~ Jimmy Snyder It happens to the best of us. Tom Hanks used to throw up before performing. Cher had to be physically pushed out on the stage for her first concerts. Warren Buffet
- [Tune In](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/tune-in/) - Tune In July 27, 2017 By Mark David “Learn to listen to what people don’t say.” ~ Germain Glidden Winning coaches have developed long antennae. They try to stay tuned to the sometimes subtle signals that are coming from each member of their team. All verbal, non-verbal, and written communication—even omissions and silence—can cue a
- [Question Tradition](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/question-tradition/) - Question Tradition August 10, 2017 By Mark David “Sacred cows make great steaks. ~ Unknown One of the biggest threats to fresh ideas and innovation is the phrase, “We’ve always done it this way.” Did you know that people wore shoes for hundreds of years before someone finally took a fresh look and invented left
- [Treat all Setbacks as Temporary](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/treat-all-setbacks-as-temporary/) - Treat all Setbacks as Temporary August 24, 2017 By Mark David “Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage." ~ William Ellery Channing Ultimately, your success as a leader will be largely determined by how well you maintain your balance in the face of short-term difficulties and disappointments. Leaders do not give up easily or remain
- [The Magic of “One-on-One” Leadership](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/magic-one-on-one-leadership/) - The Magic of “One-on-One” Leadership September 7, 2017 By Mark David You can’t lead a team of people by sitting behind a desk, writing memos. ~ Mark David I call it “One-on-One Leadership,” but it goes by many names. I’ve heard it called “Management by Walking Around.” Or, alternately, “Face-to- Face” Management. Or sometimes even
- [Align Company Vision with Employee Dreams](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/company-vision-employee-dreams/) - Align Company Vision with Employee Dreams September 21, 2017 By Mark David People shouldn’t have to choose between a successful career and a happy home life. ~ Harry Gray Most of us love to be a part of something bigger than ourselves. That’s one of the reasons people go to work for a company. If
- [Teach Your Team to Fish](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/teach-your-team-to-fish/) - Teach Your Team to Fish October 5, 2017 By Mark David We can do more than lead, we can teach. ~ John Meyers Virtually all great coaches see themselves as teachers. Teaching is not just a skill, it’s an honor. It’s the art of imparting your knowledge and experience to someone else— and isn’t that
- [Working Together Works](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/working-together-works/) - Working Together Works October 19, 2017 By Mark David Ask your team. They know the answers ~ Chuck Carlson Many leaders mistakenly believe that everyone expects them to have all the answers—but that’s not logical. You may know a lot, but you can’t know everything. The days of the Lone Ranger are over. In today’s
- [Devote Time to Your High Performers](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/devote-time-to-your-high-performers/) - Devote Time to Your High Performers November 2, 2017 By Mark David When people act heroically, treat them as heroes. ~ Jeff Goforth Tough time constraints on today’s managers make it virtually impossible to devote an equal amount of time to every team member. In an effort to increase overall performance, most managers tend to
- [Character vs. Popularity](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/character-vs-popularity/) - Character vs. Popularity November 16, 2017 By Mark David Good leadership involves responsibility to your entire team. This means some people will get angry at certain decisions. It’s inevitable – if you’re honorable. – Colin Powell If your number one goal is to ensure that everyone likes and approves of you, you will inevitably compromise
- [Practice Winning](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/practice-winning/) - Practice Winning November 30, 2017 By Mark David Repetition makes the magic rise. – Mark David Leaders make a conscious effort to develop winning habit patterns for themselves and their team. A “habit” is something that you or your team does in a regular and repeated (virtually automatic) way. In other words, winning can become
- [Patience (and Persistence) Pay Off](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/patience-and-persistence-pay-off/) - Patience (and Persistence) Pay Off December 14, 2017 By Mark David Most people give up one foot from the goal line. – Ross Perot Leaders do not give up easily on their people, or pull the plug too quickly on possibilities. Their faith and persistence overcome their doubts or discouragement. By remaining patient and refusing
- [Become a Reflective Thinker](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/become-a-reflective-thinker/) - Become a Reflective Thinker December 28, 2017 By Mark David Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. - Charles Bernard Shaw A good friend of mine likes to say that there are three types of people:
- [Be Decisive](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/be-decisive/) - Be Decisive January 11, 2018 By Mark David Leaders act decisively in the absence of certainty. – Bertrand Russell Should you or shouldn’t you? Yes or no? Now or later? Bureaucrats somehow find a way to avoid making decisions so they can escape all responsibility. But good leaders and coaches know that making decisions is
- [Cultivate a Farm Team](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/cultivate-a-farm-team/) - Cultivate a Farm Team January 25, 2018 By Mark David Always have your back-up players waiting in the wings. – Mark David Some of your team members, including high performers, are not going to stay with you forever. For this reason, I recommend that you set aside four hours each month to cultivate a prospective
- [Know Your Competition](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/know-your-competition/) - Know Your Competition February 8, 2018 By Mark David A true key to success is knowing what features set you apart from your competitors. – Anita Roddick Great branding is partially about distinguishing your company as an innovator, not an imitator. The idea is to differentiate yourself from your competitors in your customer’s mind and
- [Self-Image - Self Esteem - Self Confidence](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/self-image-self-esteem-self-confidence/) - Self-Image - Self Esteem - Self Confidence March 8, 2018 By Mark David Self-Image is the internal picture you hold of yourself. You can't out-perform your self-image as it creates the boundaries for you in your life. In other words, how far do YOU think you can go? Self-Esteem is how you feel about yourself. It defines what you
- [Don’t leave your future open to chance!](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/dont-leave-your-future-open-to-chance/) - Don’t leave your future open to chance! April 18, 2018 By Mark David Over the past year, I've been asked to help many individuals find their new job/career opportunity. Unfortunately, they have had to make this a reactive vs. proactive activity. Below are a few thoughts I'd like to share with you to support your career.
- [Professionalism: Where Has It Gone?](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/professionalism-where-has-it-gone/) - Professionalism: Where Has It Gone? May 17, 2018 By Mark David So many of my clients have been asking me a great and very relevant question, what can I recommend they do, to give them and their organization, a competitive edge? In other words, a way to elevate them in the eyes of others. I like to keep
- [Worry vs. Confidence](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/worry-vs-confidence/) - Worry vs. Confidence June 21, 2018 By Mark David Imagine that you're looking at a coin...one side is worry and the other side is confidence. Why is worrying so addictive to us humans? Everyone does it. Worrying is one of the most powerful forms of visualization. This is our reality because you're using your five
- [Relationships](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/relationships/) - Relationships July 19, 2018 By Mark David Can you believe it's already July!? It seems impossible that half of the year has already flown by. Many individuals turn the page into the New Year without a plan to make the most of each day, week and month. The fact is, there are only six months left
- [What Will Your Leadership Message Be?](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/what-will-your-leadership-message-be/) - What Will Your Leadership Message Be? September 27, 2018 By Mark David A client of mine, who happens to be an excellent divisional leader, recently inherited a new region. He didn't have a lot of time to get them up to speed, as he'd done in the past with the other regions in his division, and in an effort
- ["I just don’t have the time!"](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/i-just-dont-have-the-time/) - "I just don’t have the time!" October 18, 2018 By Mark David How many times a week do you hear or say that phrase? In the work that I do, I hear this comment many times throughout the course of my day. We are so busy reacting to life, that the average individual in Corporate America doesn't realize
- [5 Key Behaviors to Produce at the Highest Level](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/5-key-behaviors-to-produce-at-the-highest-level/) - 5 Key Behaviors to Produce at the Highest Level January 25, 2019 By Mark David #1 Commitment They promised themselves they would do whatever is needed to get the job done. Work and life becomes easier to navigate when you're supporting yourself vs. fighting yourself. #2 Correct Attitude They are consciously focused on knowing what
- [Living a Life of Intention & Contentment](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/1535-2/) - LIVING A LIFE OF INTENTION & CONTENTMENT Febuary 22, 2019 By Mark David Most individuals I work with are striving to live a life of contentment. Contentment is a state of happiness and satisfaction in all areas of your life (personal, professional, social, financial, health, etc.). I have found that the key to reaching true
- [PONO](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/1555-2/) - PONO is the Hawaiian word balance of all thing April 25, 2019 By Mark David Upon closer examination, PONO is really the acceptance that life is out of balance most of the time. Top 1% performers accept this concept but many individuals resist this reality. PONO is about reducing and eliminating expectations. In its place,
- [Slowing Down to Get Ahead](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/5-key-behaviors-to-produce-at-the-highest-level-2/) - Slowing Down to Get Ahead June 6, 2019 By Mark David What does "Slowing Down to Get Ahead" really mean? I believe it's the realization that we're all better off doing the majority of our work, averaging 60-80% of max speed vs. running at max speed all the time. Slowing down to get ahead means
- [How to influence your company culture](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/how-to-influence-your-company-culture/) - June 27, 2019 By Mark David Having spent the better part of my career working to help companies achieve their best results, I have learned quite a lot about what works and what doesn't in terms of company culture. I'd like to share with you what I believe are ten key components for creating and
- [Words are cheap. Actions tell the truth. ](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/words-are-cheap-actions-tell-the-truth/) - Words are cheap. Actions tell the truth. September 5, 2019 By Mark David Alignment between your words and actions is powerful. Your actions back up whether your words are true or false. You earn people's respect not by what you say, but by your actions. Which is why, if you're in any sort of supervisory, management or
- [No One is Coming](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/no-one-is-coming/) - No One Is Coming Oct 11, 2019 By Mark David "No one is coming..." is one of my all-time favorite quotes. I've been saying these words to myself and my clients for the past four decades and I've taught it to all my students. Most individuals would agree that it makes a lot of sense.
- [Attack - Attack - Attack](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/attack-attack-attack/) - Attack - Attack - Attack Nov. 7, 2019 By Mark David In today's world, where most individuals are rightfully cautious, there are times that we all should be more proactively, aggressive. When life defines these specific times, we should go in a 100% maximum action state. When everything aligns to move swiftly and confidently forward,
- [Holiday Spark](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/holiday-spark/) - The Holidays IGNITE New Energy! Dec. 5, 2019 By Mark David This time of year rings in excitement, energy and magic. Whether it's the nature of the season which generates more smiles and goodwill, spending more time with family and friends or simply watching children react to the magic and possibilities of the season, this
- [Acceptance](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/acceptance/) - Acceptance Jan. 2, 2020 By Mark David Most 12-Step programs usually start off their meetings with the 'Serenity Prayer' which is about accepting the things you cannot change. Therefore, one must comprehend the truth of their reality. Based on truth, we can make the correct decisions. Acceptance will set you up to: Hold yourself accountableTruly understand that you are responsible for
- [E+R=O](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/ero/) - E+R=O Feb. 6, 2020 By Mark David 'E' stands for an event that is happening in your life - either positive or negative. Your job is to have emotional immunity and stay open to learning from the event. As the event is unfolding, ask yourself what is the lesson here. Once you establish the lesson and
- [Promote Effective Time Management &  Strategic Thinking](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/promote-effective-time-management-strategic-thinking/) - Promote Effective Time Management & Strategic Thinking March. 5, 2020 By Mark David We all have the same amount of time each day. Twenty-four fantastic hours. The difference between successful and unsuccessful leaders is what do you do and achieve in each hour. Therefore, it comes down to the decision you make that becomes your
- [Make Adjustments](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/make-adjustments/) - Make Adjustments April 2, 2020 By Mark David Every day we have the opportunity to accept the challenges the world gives us. It's important to stay focused on both the macro and micro at the same time. We can't let the noise of the day overtake us - we must welcome all of it and
- [LEVERAGE YOUR STRENGTHS](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/leverage-your-strengths/) - LEVERAGE YOUR STRENGTHS May 7, 2020 By Mark David What does it mean to leverage your strengths? In the simplest terms, it means using more of what you are good at to get more of what you want. So the next question is - do you know what your strengths are? I have found that
- [Recognize | Understand | Naviagte](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/recognize-understand-naviagte/) - Recognize | Understand | Navigate June 4, 2020 By Mark David Recognize where you are in relation to your goals and potential. Understand why you're doing what you're doing - understand how important it is to slow down to get ahead, by doing so (and being reflective) you can comprehend the importance of staying in
- [Manufacture High Energy](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/manufacture-high-energy/) - Manufacture High Energy July 9, 2020 By Mark David I believe that all successful people have a foundation of success that’s built on knowing that their #1 daily goal is to create, within themselves, the perfect level of positive energy each minute of every day. Why should you focus on creating it? - Internal positive/high
- [Mark David on the IRIS Podcast](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/mark-david-on-the-iris-podcast/) - Mark David on the IRIS Podcast July 30, 2020 IRIS Podcast Click Here I'm so happy to share that I collaborated with a longtime client and friend, Doug Heikkinen to create a podcast based on my most recent book, The Gifted Leader. Our conversation was focused on raising awareness around the need to energize the culture
- [Leadership  is Key](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/leadership-is-key/) - Leadership is Key August 6, 2020 By Mark David In order to become a great leader, you must first understand the characteristics and traits that make a great leader. A few invaluable habits all great leaders have in common are: 1. They create a vision of their desired future state 2. They communicate and broadcast this vision internally and externally. 3. They preplan how
- [Planning = Success](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/planning-success/) - Planning = Success Sept. 10, 2020 By Mark David When you think of living a successful life, one consistent factor that proactive individuals do is to plan to be successful. The first place to start with every plan or project is to create a clear vision of the desired future state. In other words, start with the end in mind
- [1-4-5 RULE](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/1-4-5-rule/) - 1-4-5 RULE Oct. 15, 2020 By Mark David Many people get stuck in the weeds each day. “In The Weeds” is where all the noise is. It is layer upon layer of data that in many cases is OLD and not relevant to today’s challenges. Today’s world is moving at an incredible speed – faster
- [September 2, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-2-2025/) - "If you think a complimentary thought about someone, don't just think it. Dare to openly compliment people and pass on compliments to them from others." — Catherine Ponder
- [Self-Coaching](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/self-coaching/) - Self-Coaching Nov. 5, 2020 By Mark David Self-coaching is an easy principle to execute on a daily basis - the key is to concentrate on creating positive energy within yourself. Creating positive energy is a matter of being in alignment with your goals, feelings, thoughts, and actions. Another important component to self-coaching is… acceptance. Acceptance
- [Imagination](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/imagination/) - Imagination Dec. 3, 2020 By Mark David Imagination is something that you must develop, it just doesn't happen for most people. It's a skill that people I work with are consciously strengthening their capability to perform. Imagination allows you to see things that others don't see. That's why it's such an important skill to have.
- [Patience](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/patience/) - Patience Jan. 7, 2021 By Mark David Patience will allow you to slow down to get ahead. Patience and correct timing to be patient is key to a successful life. Here are a few specific areas to implement your patience... 1. Yourself - give yourself a break. Stop making time commitments that are unrealistic to
- [SPEAKING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/speaking-a-foreign-language/) - SPEAKING A FOREIGN LANGUAGE Feb. 4, 2021 By Mark David Let's talk about foreign languages. When I ask if you speak a foreign language, most people would think of speaking the language of another country, such as Italian, Russian, German, etc. But that's not what I'm talking about. What I want to bring to your
- [PEOPLE POWER](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/people-power/) - PEOPLE POWER March. 4, 2021 By Mark David The People Power principle is defined as … Two or more people who have the same common goal will come up with the idea, recommendations and solutions that neither party would have come up with as individuals. People Power is a principle I have been using for
- [NEVER GIVE UP](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/never-give-up/) - NEVER GIVE UP April 1, 2021 By Mark David Remember the famous 9-word speech given by Sir Winston Churchill at a university commencement. After taking off his top hat and putting down his cigar, Churchill looked at the eager eyes riveted on him. He began, "Never give up." Then he paused. After a spell he
- [TIME MANAGEMENT](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/time-management/) - TIME MANAGEMENT May 6, 2021 By Mark David Time management has never been more important, as we go back to our post-COVID days. Many individuals are out of time management balance. Time management is not a matter of controlling people and things. It's a matter of understanding that time management is within YOU! The tools
- [CALENDAR CATCH UP](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/calendar-catch-up/) - CALENDAR CATCH UP June 3, 2021 By Mark David I get asked many good questions in my coaching practice and a question I receive from time to time is, "What is the quickest shortcut you know to becoming successful?" There have been times that a client needs to accomplish something in their life in an
- [IT'S SUMMER](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/its-summer/) - IT'S SUMMER July 8, 2021 By Mark David It's Summer! Time to use some of those vacation days you've earned to unplug, relax, recharge and spend some well-deserved time off with your family. Or not. 😉 I'm sure you read this and laughed but I'm also sure that many of you can relate and have
- [Trust and Strategy](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/trust-and-strategy/) - Trust and Strategy August 5, 2021 By Mark David I've been studying sales for over half a century. Today's successful sales leaders have two ​stand-out capabilities that support their success. The first is the capability of trust. This is the heart of 75% or more of achieving the sales result you want. Let's break down trust in
- [Optimism & Opportunity](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/optimism-opportunity/) - Optimism & Opportunity October 21, 2021 By Mark David In today’s challenging times, one must use the words optimism and opportunity as guideposts to be successful. Let us examine both words. Optimism is having or showing hope for the future, expecting good things to happen. Synonyms are assured, bright, buoyant, cheerful, and confident. I
- [Take a Deep Breath…. Relax](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/take-a-deep-breath-relax/) - Take a Deep Breath…. Relax November 18, 2021 By Mark David It’s truly amazing that the holiday season is upon us. Once again, we all will be moving so fast that the next time you lift up your head it will be the middle of March 2022. The holiday season add another lane of oncoming
- [Achievement](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/achievement/) - Achievement December 23, 2021 By Mark David December is the last month of the year. It's a great time to get ready for the new adventure that is Infront of you. I wanted to give you a poem by Robert Lewis Stevenson. He is famous for his books called Treasure Island and The Strange Case
- [The more you are YOU, the more you will DO](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/the-more-you-are-you-the-more-you-will-do/) - The more you are YOU, the more you will DO January 13, 2022 By Mark David Happy new year to you, your families and all the employees at your company. As you embark down the road of 2022, make this a great year of being successful. The easiest way I know how is by focusing
- [UNPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIORS](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/unproductive-behaviors/) - UNPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIORS February 24, 2022 By Mark David I recently went to my 9-year-old grandson, Jonathan’s, baseball tryout. The tryouts were for a competitive baseball team held indoors at a facility. As I waited with my son-n-law and the other parents I found the following on the bulletin board for all to read. It was
- [THE INVISIBLE LEADERS](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/the-invisible-leaders/) - THE INVISIBLE LEADERS March 31, 2022 By Mark David Many of today’s realities seems to make no sense at all. I would like to focus on the invisible leaders as they populate most companies. Let me give you a perfect example: Most yearly companywide engagement scores report back to their leadership team that upper management
- [KNOWLEDGE   EXPERIENCE   WISDOM](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/knowledge-experience-wisdom/) - KNOWLEDGE EXPERIENCE WISDOM April 9, 2022 By Mark David When these three words come to mind – Knowledge, Experience, Wisdom, they resonate as being the core profile features of all the individuals I coach. As a coach, everyone I work with is a composite of these impactful words. What I find so interesting is most
- [MID-YEAR REBOOT](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/mid-year-reboot/) - MID-YEAR REBOOT June 16, 2022 By Mark David As we move into the month of June, of the calendar year of 2022, lets confirm that key adjustments toyour behavior is being made to you’re thinking, acting and becoming. Duality – We all are living in this present moment of now. In this state make sure
- [MAXIMIZE YOUR VACATION TIME](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/maximize-your-vacation-time/) - MAXIMIZE YOUR VACATION TIME July 12, 2022 By Mark David Congratulations – you and your family are going on a well-deserved vacation. Over the years I have gotten great feedback from my students that have used these practical suggestions I have recommended. These are great tips whether taking a 3 day or one month sabbatical.
- [Relationships Count!](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/relationships-count/) - Relationships Count! Aug 11, 2022 By Mark David Dear Friends, I wanted to share with you a paragraph from a book I have been reading and studying. As many of you know, the sport I play and love is racquetball. The book's title is 'Winning Racquetball: Skills, Drills & Strategies". It has helped me advance my
- [Top 4 Capabilities - Part 1 - Determined](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/top-4-capabilities-part-1-determined/) - Top 4 Capabilities - Part 1 - Determined Sept 18, 2022 By Mark David One of the best parts of my work is reviewing the trending data. Looking at data and comprehending thetruth. I do this by viewing all data clinically, objectively and keep in outside of myself. Therefore, I'm notaligning it with my perception
- [Top 4 Capabilities - Part 2 - Stamina](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/top-4-capabilities-part-2-stamina/) - Top 4 Capabilities - Part 2 - Stamina Oct 13, 2022 By Mark David Stamina is my number two of the four trending capabilities that make up my Top20% of clients. The stamina that they all possess is presented in four forms: MentalEmotionalPhysicalSpiritual Stamina, by definition, is the ability to sustain prolonged effort on focused
- [Top 4 Capabilities.  Be a Dynamic Force - Part 3 - Dynamic Force](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/top-4-capabilities-be-a-dynamic-force-part-3-dynamic-force/) - Top 4 Capabilities - Part 3 - Dynamic Force Nov 18, 2022 By Mark David My third selection of trending capabilities, that makes up my top 20% clients, is being a dynamic force. The definition of being a dynamic person is they have a positive attitude, along with being full of energy and new ideas.
- [Will Fight to Go After It!](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/will-fight-to-go-after-it/) - Will Fight to Go After It! Dec 29, 2022 By Mark David The fourth capability of my Top 20% of clients is the relentless pursuit to go after what they want. They roll up their sleeves and are ready to do whatever it takes to get the job done! There is no holding back when
- [TRUE ADULT HAPPINESS](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/true-adult-happiness/) - TRUE ADULT HAPPINESS Jan 26, 2023 By Mark David As a coach, I get asked many times “How can you be continuously happy – especially in these times filled with stress and anxiety?” The answer is easy to describe ~ the doing is where it gets tough. The answer is to hold yourself accountable for
- [S + D + R = SUCCESS](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/s-d-r-success/) - S + D + R = SUCCESS Feb 16, 2023 By Mark David I get asked in January of every year, “Can you give me a quick way to be successful?” Here is a three-step system that can carry you over the finish line: The ‘S’ stands for structure. This is the beginning of the
- [Examples of Negative and Positive Leadership Characteristics](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/examples-of-negative-and-positive-leadership-characteristics/) - Examples of Negative and Positive Leadership Characteristics Appreciate the Day, Mark David Download the PDF version of this post.
- [EXIT STAGE LEFT ](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/exit-stage-left/) - EXIT STAGE LEFT April 13, 2023 By Mark David Why are individuals leaving your firm today? Here are 3 main reasons in order of importance: Their immediate manager The company’s culture The lack of investing in their growth and development 1. Their immediate manager The immediate manager makes or breaks the loyalty factor. If the manager creates
- [ZERO BASED THINKING](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/zero-based-thinking/) - ZERO BASED THINKING May 25, 2023 By Mark David Zero Based Thinking (ZBT) is a fantastic leadership technique to support the company, organization, team, or individual success. What is ZBT? The leader looks back historically at a point in time that you went from zero, (you have nothing), to one, (you have something). Here is
- [FIRST COMES ME, THEN EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING ELSE…  ](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/first-comes-me-then-everyone-and-everything-else/) - FIRST COMES ME, THEN EVERYONE AND EVERYTHING ELSE… June 29, 2023 By Mark David When you first read the title of this blog, for most of us, it may invoke an automatic reaction of “That’s nuts of me, how selfish!” It’s no secret that most good hard-working people put themselves last. They put their families,
- [STOP WORKING AND START CREATING!](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/stop-working-and-start-creating/) - STOP WORKING AND START CREATING! July 27, 2023 By Mark David As you read the title of this blog, kindly take note that by "stop working," I refer to abstaining from investing excessive effort in endeavors that hold minimal significance in the grand tapestry of life. Moreover, I want to emphasize that your unwavering dedication and long
- [Faith vs. Fear ](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/faith-vs-fear/) - Faith vs. Fear Aug. 24, 2023 By Mark David How do these dynamics unfold in today's Corporate America? Today I'm writing about a topic that seems to be on everyone's mind. Leaders today refuse to accept that they are out of touch with their front-line worker. My definition of the front-line work force is the people
- [TODAY’S WORK ETHIC](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/todays-work-ethic/) - TODAY’S WORK ETHIC Sept. 14, 2023 By Mark David Today’s work ethic translates into a much broader definition than how many hours you are working. Today the proper work ethicsconsists of the following: - Value: Can you and the people around you confirm the value you are delivering? - Results: Your actions are connected to the achievement of agree upon goals,
- [BURNOUT](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/burnout/) - BURNOUT Oct. 26, 2023 By Mark David Burnout of your best people is a widespread reality in corporate America today. The reason issimple - Your top performers (Your Top 20% who gets 80% of the work done) are always selected to pick up the heavy load. This is occurring because many of today’s leaders arenot
- [Happy Holidays ](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/happy-holidays/) - Happy Holidays Nov. 22, 2023 By Mark David The holidays will be upon us throughout the November, December, and January months. It is amazing how busy we all are today and many of us are finding the weeks to be flying by! Here is a suggestion that I recommend to you, as it will enhance
- [STAY WITH IT](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/stay-with-it/) - STAY WITH IT Dec. 29, 2023 By Mark David In the tapestry of time, December unfolds as a dual-sided door: one facet reflecting the challenges and triumphs of 2023, while the other beckons the uncharted possibilities and promises of 2024. As you stand on the brink, departing from 2023 and entering the realm of 2024,
- [The Circle of Success for 2024 and beyond!](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/the-circle-of-success-for-2024-and-beyond/) - The Circle of Success for 2024 and beyond! Jan. 25, 2024 By Mark David This January blog gives you a very simple approach to follow to stay consistently on track. When you break down the actions of the individuals, teams, organizations, or companies they all have prioritized their lives with these attributes. ATTITUDE You are
- [You Get What You Coach!](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/you-get-what-you-coach/) - You Get What You Coach! Feb. 29, 2024 By Mark David You get what you coach is such a simple statement. It’s so basic and easy to comprehend. Great coaches are great communicators. They inform their direct reports exactly what they expect. As it relates to the end results, the why it needs to be
- [STOP GOING TO WORK, START GOING TO LIVING!](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/stop-going-to-work-start-going-to-living/) - STOP GOING TO WORK, START GOING TO LIVING! March 28, 2024 By Mark David Pause for a moment and let this sink in: 'Stop Going to Work, Start Going to Living!' This powerful truth has sparked a profound shift in how countless individuals approach their daily lives. For the ones who have not yet begun
- [LEADERSHIP MENU](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/leadership-menu/) - LEADERSHIP MENU May 14, 2024 By Mark David Which side will you order from? Leadership Plus(+) or minus(-) is a personal choice we all have to make. My intention with this chart is to help you find your way. A leader’s life is a journey with many twists and turns. My best advice to leaders
- [The How](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/the-how/) - The How June 20, 2024 By Mark David This month I'm focusing on the "How" portion of communicating with the Universe. Remember 100% communication with the "U" consists of: 60% placing your order 30% defining the why, writing it out and letting it fill you with gratitude 10% letting the "How" appear This last portion
- [The Hangover](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/the-hangover/) - The Hangover July 18 2024 By Mark David This calendar year has presented a tumultuous journey for numerous companies I support here at MDC. As we navigate through this tense environment of ongoing rounds of layoffs, reorganizations of teams and the normal de-hiring process occurring it can resemble a game of musical chairs. It's evident
- [Today's Silent Heroes](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/todays-silent-heroes/) - Today's Silent Heroes Aug. 21, 2024 By Mark David Silent heroes are the unsung individuals who keep your company running smoothly and successfully. They are the ones who fulfill the promises your company makes to its customers. Whether your company is focused on producing goods or delivering services, these silent heroes ensure that what the
- [The Art Of Better Decision Making](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/the-art-of-better-decision-making/) - The Art Of Better Decision Making Sept. 19, 2024 By Mark David Eleanor Roosevelt once said that the decisions we make shape our lives. How true is this statement? Our lives are indeed a culmination of all the choices we've made and will continue to make. Here are a few strategies to help you become
- [The Power of Authenticity: A Guide to Unlocking Your Potential in 5 Steps](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/the-power-of-authenticity-a-guide-to-unlocking-your-potential-in-5-steps/) - The Power of Authenticity: A Guide to Unlocking Your Potential in 5 Steps Oct. 24, 2024 By Mark David “The more you are you, the more you will do!” Simple ideas are often the most challenging to bring to life. After over 50 years of studying human behavior and success, I’ve consistently found that the
- [A Time for Gratitude — Starting with You](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/a-time-for-gratitude-starting-with-you/) - A Time for Gratitude — Starting with You Nov. 21, 2024 By Mark David As we enter the holiday season, I invite you to take a moment and reflect—not just on the people and experiences you are grateful for, but on you. This simple practice, using the MDC system, is a way to honor yourself,
- [Maximize Your Life in 2025: Ten Strategies, Concepts, and Ideas for Living at the Apex of Your Potential](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/maximize-your-life-in-2025-ten-strategies-concepts-and-ideas-for-living-at-the-apex-of-your-potential/) - Maximize Your Life in 2025: Ten Strategies, Concepts, and Ideas for Living at the Apex of Your Potential Dec. 26, 2024 By Mark David As we approach 2025, it's a time of reflection and renewal—a moment to commit to living at the highest level of personal and professional success. What better way to set yourself
- [IT’S A NEW DAWN](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/its-a-new-dawn-2/) - IT’S A NEW DAWN Jan 30, 2025 By Mark David The new year is upon us, and with it comes a fresh opportunity to lead with purpose and intention. As we step into 2025, it's easy to get caught up in the busyness of life and work. Time moves quickly, and before we know it,
- [LEADING WITH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: THE HIDDEN COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/leading-with-emotional-intelligence-the-hidden-competitive-advantage/) - LEADING WITH EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE: THE HIDDEN COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE Feb 24, 2025 By Mark David I’ve been in leadership long enough to know that no matter how advanced technology gets, one thing remains true—people want to follow someone they trust, respect, and feel understood by. That’s where emotional intelligence (EI) can be a key differentiator. Sure,
- [Hologram Leadership: Stop Being a Single Entity/Singular Energy Source](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/hologram-leadership-stop-being-a-single-entity-singular-energy-source-2/) - Hologram Leadership: Stop Being a Single Entity/Singular Energy Source March 28, 2025 By Mark David What is Hologram Leadership? A hologram is a three-dimensional image formed by the interference of light beams from a laser or other coherent light source. When you, as a Hologram Leader, shine a light on yourself, you will reveal the
- [THE LOST ART OF NOTETAKING](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/the-lost-art-of-notetaking/) - THE LOST ART OF NOTETAKING April 30, 2025 By Mark David "What gets written, gets done." A few months ago, Will Hermens, a technology leader at Nike, reached out with a suggestion to do a blog on the importance of notetaking in corporate America. His insight sparked a conversation and ultimately this collaboration. We trust
- [GOING THE EXTRA MILE IN LIFE!](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/going-the-extra-mile-in-life/) - GOING THE EXTRA MILE IN LIFE! May 29, 2025 By Mark David When we hear people talking about going the “extra mile”, most people take it as working harder than others; I would like to shine another light on this simple but powerful habit. Think about going the extra mile in life as a mindset
- [SELF-CONFIDENCE](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/self-confidence/) - SELF-CONFIDENCE June 26, 2025 By Mark David In today’s world, we are in the era of the 3 C’s: Accelerating Change, Overwhelming Complexity, and Increased Competition. For many of us navigating this relentless pace, it can feel like the demands from every direction - career, family, community, and personal growth - are multiplying exponentially. The
- [CONFLICT IS GOOD FOR RELATIONSHIPS](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/conflict-is-good-for-relationships/) - CONFLICT IS GOOD FOR RELATIONSHIPS July 29, 2025 By Mark David I remember a respected businessperson telling me years ago that their best clients were often those with whom they had experienced conflicts. They described these conflicts as fuel that deepened trust and respect within the relationship. Reflecting on this, I’ve also observed the importance
- [Make the Invisible Visible](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/make-the-invisible-visible/) - Make the Invisible Visible Aug 28, 2025 By Mark David As a coach, I ask the bosses of the people I work with: “What strategic contribution could this person make—one they’re not currently doing—that would unlock material value for you as a leader, and for the organization’s success? Let’s define “boss” as any person/people who
- [Creating a Unified Life of Adventures](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/creating-a-unified-life-of-adventures/) - Creating a Unified Life of Adventures Sept. 25, 2025 By Mark David I want to give you a formula that will maximize the great achievements in your life. This simple formula will create a unified life. Everyone can implement it; it's just a matter of embracing it. Here it is: Work + Life = Living
- [BE AN EXCELLENT COMMUNICATOR](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/be-an-excellent-communicator/) - BE AN EXCELLENT COMMUNICATOR Oct. 30, 2025 By Mark David In today’s world, when everything is moving so fast, it really pays to be an excellent communicator. You need this skill, whether you are a leader, manager, coach, mother, father, influencer, friend, etc. What makes this skill so important is that we have so little
- [November 4, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-4-2025/) - "Morale is self-esteem in action" — Avery Weisman
- [October 28, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-28-2025/) - "I'm just a country plow hand, but I've learned to get a team beating with one heart: If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, they did it." — Paul "Bear" Bryant
- [October 21, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-21-2025/) - "Teamwork thrives when no seeks credit, but everyone gives it away." — Mark David
- [October 14, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-14-2025/) - "Accept compliments easily and share the credit with others. There is plenty to go around for everyone." — Bruce Fine
- [October 7, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-7-2025/) - "No one ever accomplishes anything of real value entirely on their own. We all have someone to thank for our accomplishments." — Dan Zadra
- [September 30, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-30-2025/) - "Give all the credit away." — John Wooden
- [September 23, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-23-2025/) - "Put your words in a letter so they won't die on the empty air. When someone wins an award, leads a drive, preaches a great sermon, or contributes to the greater good of your company or community, lift their spirits with a personal note or handwritten letter. " — W.A. Peterson
- [September 16, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-16-2025/) - "Don't just think it — ink it! " — Dan Zadra
- [September 9, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-9-2025/) - "To every leader and manager: In the next 96 hours, send four thank-you notes to front-line employees for a job well done; repeat every 96 hours for the rest of your life. Repeat the same process with your customers." — Tom Peters
- [August 26, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-26-2025/) - "There must've been hundreds of people cheering at some of those track meets, but my father's voice always found me. A simple, 'That's it kid', and my feet grew wings." — Madison Riley
- [August 19, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-19-2025/) - "Encouragement is oxygen to the soul." — George Adams
- [August 12, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-12-2025/) - "We can help the marathon runner the most by offering encouragement and nourishment along the entire track, not just by waiting at the finish line with a trophy." — Alex Hiam
- [August 5, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-5-2025/) - "A proven way to accelerate improvement and progress: reward and celebrate closer and closer approximations of the desired end result." — Andrew Compton
- [July 29, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-29-2025/) - "Appreciation can make a day, even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary." — Margaret Cousins
- [July 22, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-22-2025/) - "Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it." — William Arthur Ward
- [July 15, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-15-2025/) - "Many people hesitate to praise and celebrate the people they work with, thinking it would seem like flattery. But the great ones know they are in a spiral of helping, a contest of giving." — Dale Dauten
- [July 8, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-8-2025/) - "Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone." — Gladys Stern
- [July 1, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-1-2025/) - "It's not how much we admire or appreciate someone, it's how much they know it that counts." — Andrew Lyon
- [June 24, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-24-2025/) - Truthfully, everyone who does the best he or she can do, day in and day out, should be considered a hero.— Pat Murphy
- [June 17, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-17-2025/) - We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.— Will Rogers
- [June 10, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-10-2025/) - We all need to be recognized for what we're doing, for our work. Every once in a while we need someone to come up to us and say, 'You're beautiful. That was well done. That's nice.'— Leo Buscaglia
- [June 3, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-3-2025/) - The five most important words: 'You did a great job.'— Gale Whitney
- [May 27, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-27-2025/) - Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats before you, and no crowds shout your name.— Robert Louis Stevenson
- [May 20, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-20-2025/) - Most people aren't appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives are usually known only to ourselves.— Peggy Noonan
- [May 13, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-13-2025/) - There are unrecognized heroes among our neighbors, friends and co-workers.— Harold W. Bernard
- [May 6, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-6-2025/) - Each day unknown men and women do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.— Charles Reade
- [Hologram Leadership: Stop Being a Single Entity/Singular Energy Source](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/hologram-leadership-stop-being-a-single-entity-singular-energy-source/)
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- [April 29, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-29-2025/) - In our world of 'big names,' legions of our most creative and courageous people tend to be anonymous.— Daniel J. Boorstin
- [April 22, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-22-2025/) - The world knows nothing of its greatest people.— Henry Taylor
- [April 15, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-15-2025/) - Show me the person you honor and I will know what kind of person you are.— Thomas Carlyle
- [April 8, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-8-2025/) - A nation reveals itself not only by the men and women it produces but also by the men and women it honors.— John F. Kennedy
- [April 1, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-1-2025/) - When people act heroically, treat them as heroes.— Jeff Goforth
- [March 25, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-25-2025/) - There is no such thing as an individual sport or a sole proprietorship. There are always a lot of people behind the scenes for anything great to happen.— Unknown
- [March 18, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-18-2025/) - Even the greatest genius will not be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.— Goethe
- [March 11, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-11-2025/) - What separates those who achieve from those who do not is in direct proportion to one's ability to ask for help.— Donald Keough
- [March 4, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-4-2025/) - There is no sin in delegating. The sin is trying to do it all.— Deborah Roberts
- [February 25, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-25-2025/) - Be aware of what others are doing, applaud their efforts, acknowledge their successes, and encourage them in their pursuits. When we all help and encourage one another, everyone wins.— Jim Stovall
- [February 11, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-11-2025/) - Nothing else can quite substitute for a few well-chosen, well-timed, sincere words of praise and appreciation. They're absolutely free and worth a fortune.— Sam Walton
- [February 4, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-4-2025/) - The best leaders are coaches appealing to the best in their people; their doors are always open; they are problem solvers, advice givers and cheerleaders.— Robert Townsend
- [January 28, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-28-2025/) - Among the duties of life, I hardly know any one thing more important than that of praising where praise is due.— Sydney Smith
- [January 21, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-21-2025/) - When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.— Samuel Goldwyn
- [January 14, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-14-2025/) - Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.— Voltaire
- [January 7, 2025](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-7-2025/) - Be a good-finder. Try to catch people red-handed in the act of doing things right— and praise them for it.— Bill Meyer
- [December 31, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-31-2024/) - Never squander an opportunity to tell someone you appreciate them.— Diane Wilde
- [December 24, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-24-2024/) - Throw the spotlight into every corner of your company or community and celebrate the people who are doing things right.— Mark David
- [December 17, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-17-2024/) - Ah, great it is to believe the dream. As we stand in youth by a starry stream. But a greater thing is to fight life through. And say at the end, 'The dream is true.'— Edwin Markham
- [December 10, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-10-2024/) - Whatever we have done with our lives makes us what we are when we die. And everything, absolutely everything counts.— Sogyal Rinpoche
- [December 3, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-3-2024/) - In the end, I think my greatest concerns will be, how much love did I have in my life? How did I share my love? Whose lives did I impact? Did my life make a difference to others? — Richard Carlson, Ph.D.
- [November 26, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-26-2024/) - The true riches of life come from the satisfaction of knowing that your life counted for something, that you gave me back far more than you took.— W. Clement Stone
- [November 19, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-19-2024/) - Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.— Barbara Sher
- [November 12, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-12-2024/) - We need to give ourselves permission to act out our dreams and visions. Even if it takes a lifetime.— Diane Deacon
- [November 5, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-5-2024/) - Let your life be defined by the things you still pursue, rather than the things you already possess.— Mike Mars
- [October 29, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-29-2024/) - Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.— Michelangelo
- [October 22, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-22-2024/) - Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand, and melting like a snowflake.— Marie Beynon Ray
- [October 15, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-15-2024/) - Don't be concerned about your life ending; be concerned about it never beginning.— Paul Modelo
- [October 8, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-8-2024/) - Don't be fooled by the calendar; there are only as many days in a year or a lifetime as you make use of.— Charles Richards
- [October 1, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-1-2024/) - There are only so many tomorrows.— Michael Landon
- [September 24, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-24-2024/) - And now let us welcome the rest of our lives, full of things that have never been.— James Hendries
- [September 17, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-17-2024/) - You really can change the world if you care enough.— Marian Wright Edelman
- [September 10, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-10-2024/) - My passionate belief is that business can be fun, it can be conducted with love, and can be a powerful force for good.— Anita Roddick
- [September 3, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-3-2024/) - Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.— Walt Disney
- [August 27, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-27-2024/) - A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.— Henry Ford
- [August 20, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-20-2024/) - Success means we go to sleep at night knowing that our talents and abilities were used in a way that served others.— Marianne Williamson
- [August 13, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-13-2024/) - Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, "What's in it for me?"— Brian Tracy
- [August 6, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-6-2024/) - You can have everything you want out of life, if you will just help enough other people get what they want out of life.— Zig Ziglar
- [July 30, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-30-2024/) - Goodness is the only investment that never fails.— Henry David Thoreau
- [July 23, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-23-2024/) - Even if it's a little thing, do something for others - something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.— Albert Schweitzer
- [July 16, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-16-2024/) - We rise by lifting others.— Robert Green Ingersoll
- [July 9, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-9-2024/) - The quality of your life will be determined in large part by the quality of your contribution. When you work to improve the lives of others, your own life improves too.— Kurek Ashley
- [July 2, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-2-2024/) - Life is an exciting business and most exciting when it is lived for others.— Helen Keller
- [June 25, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-25-2024/) - A very important part of the joy of living is the joy of giving.— William Buck
- [June 18, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-18-2024/) - So with imagination, ingenuity and audacity, explore, discover, change the world. But always take time out to love and to live.— Daniel S. Godin
- [June 11, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-11-2024/) - Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.— John Petit-Senn
- [June 4, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-4-2024/) - Life, even in the hardest times, is full of moments to treasure. They will not come this way again, not in this way.— Paula Rinehart
- [May 28, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-28-2024/) - If you love life, do not squander time; that is the stuff life is mad of.— Joanne Ludwig
- [May 14, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-14-2024/) - Do something brilliant each day. Make a great meal tonight. Sell something in a dynamic way. Spectacularly deliver a presentation. Tell an outstanding joke. Slash through a difficult obstacle. Dream a wonderful dream.— Roger Von Oech
- [May 7, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-7-2024/) - I'm all in today. I leave everything on the field of life.— Mark David
- [April 30, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-30-2024/) - These are the greatest days of your life. Don't be afraid of them. Love every minute of what you are doing.— Terry Bowden
- [April 23, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-23-2024/) - The bad new is that the good old days are gone forever. The good news is that these are the good old days you're going to treasure years ahead.— Paul Harvey
- [April 16, 2014](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-16-2014/) - What I do today is important because I'm exchanging a day of my life for it.— Unknown
- [April 9, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-9-2024/) - To affect the quality of the day - that is the highest of arts.— Henry David Thoreau
- [April 2, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-2-2024/) - Each day comes to me with both hands full of possibilities.— Helen Keller
- [March 26, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-26-2024/) - My future starts when I wake up every morning.— Miles Davis
- [March 19, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-19-2024/) - This day is a journey; this very moment an adventure.— Rebecca Pavlenko
- [March 12, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-12-2024/) - The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you finish the work.— Pat Clifford
- [March 5, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-5-2024/) - When friends ask, there is no tomorrow...only now.— Alexander Drey
- [February 27, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-27-2024/) - Happiness...not in another place, but this place; not for another hour, but this hour.— Walt Whitman
- [February 20, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-20-2024/) - Don't postpone joy.— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- [February 13, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-13-2024/) - Lots of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.— William Feather
- [February 6, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-6-2024/) - The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.— Arnold J. Toynbee
- [January 30, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-30-2024/) - Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.— Robert Fulghum
- [January 23, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-23-2024/) - Let there be more joy and laughter in your living.— Eileen Caddy
- [January 16, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-16-2024/) - Make regular appointments with yourself, and treat an appointment with yourself as you would treat an appointment with anyone else.— Steven Covey
- [January 9, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-9-2024/) - There comes a time when you put yourself at the top of your commitment list.— Marian Wright Edelman
- [January 2, 2024](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-2-2024/) - Remember that the business of life is not merely about business, but about life.— B.C. Forbes
- [December 26, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-26-2023/) - For the sake of making a living we forget to live.— Margaret Fuller
- [December 19, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-19-2023/) - While pursuing all you want, be sure to appreciate and enjoy all you have.— Jim Rohn
- [December 12, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-12-2023/) - Forget about the reasons why something may not work; you only need to find one good reason why it will.— Dr. Robert Anthony
- [December 5, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-5-2023/) - Let your advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. — Winston Churchill
- [November 28, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-28-2023/) - I dared to dream big dreams, and then I willed them to happen. I'm convinced that most people can achieve their dreams and beyond if they have the determination to keep trying.— Howard Schultz
- [November 21, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-21-2023/) - If you can dream it, you can do it.— Walt Disney
- [November 14, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-14-2023/) - When everyone around you says you can't. When everything you know says you can't. When everything within you says you can't. Dig deep within yourself, find it, and you can.— Mark Elliott Sacks
- [November 7, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-7-2023/) - Progress results only from the fact that there are some people who refuse to believe that what they know to be right cannot be done.— Russell Davenport
- [October 31, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-31-2023/) - It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do that's important.— Gail Devers
- [October 24, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-24-2023/) - If the dominant belief is that the world is flat and you will sail off the edge if you go too far, then it's impossible to sail beyond the horizon and discover a new world.— Cherie Carter-Scott, PH.D
- [October 17, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-17-2023/) - Too many of our dreams and goals at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.— Christopher Reeve
- [October 10, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-10-2023/) - All business proceeds on hopes and beliefs, not on certainties.— W. Clement Stone
- [October 3, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-3-2023/) - 'But I can't believe impossible things,' cried Alice. 'Of course you can, child,' responded the Queen. 'Why sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'— Lewis Carroll
- [September 26, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-26-2023/) - What can be hoped for which is not believed?.— St. Augustine
- [September 19, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-19-2023/) - Our ability to create a new company, a new community, or a new world for ourselves and others begins with our belief that it is possible.— Sergio Cellini
- [September 12, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-12-2023/) - There is no good reason why we should not grow and develop and change until the last day we live.— Karen Horney
- [September 5, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-5-2023/) - You never grow old until you've lost all your marvels.— Merry Browne
- [August 29, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-29-2023/) - Become a beginner again. Learn to like being a beginner, and the whole world opens up to you once more.— Barbara Sher
- [August 22, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-22-2023/) - So many dreams, ideas and aspirations are still waiting to be realized.— Unknown
- [August 15, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-15-2023/) - Time is invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.— Unknown
- [August 8, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-8-2023/) - When we strive to be better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.— Paul Cohelo
- [August 1, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-1-2023/) - One of the best things you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.— Wallace Wattles
- [July 25, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-25-2023/) - Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no thinks of changing himself.— Leo Tolstoy
- [July 18, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-18-2023/) - The adventure of life is to learn. The purpose of life is to grow. The nature of life is to change.— William Arthur Ward
- [July 11, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-11-2023/) - The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can become.— Max De Pree
- [July 4, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-4-2023/) - It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor even the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.— Charles Darwin
- [June 27, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-27-2023/) - The future belongs to those who learn new thing the fastest— Paul Zane Pilzer
- [June 20, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-20-2023/) - A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.— L.C. Thurow
- [June 13, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-13-2023/) - You are not made for failure, you are made for victory. Go forward with joyful confidence.— George Eliot
- [June 6, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-6-2023/) - If success is not on your terms, if it looks good to the world but does not feel good in your heart, it is not success at all.— Anna Quindlen
- [May 30, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-30-2023/) - Leaders do not give up easily. Their tenacity overcomes their discouragements. They find successful courses of action by refusing to acknowledge failure and by working to resolve the problem. — Mary McClure
- [May 23, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-23-2023/) - Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith.— Steve Jobs
- [May 16, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-16-2023/) - Many people owe the grandeur of their lives to their decision to deal creatively with huge mistakes, problems or failures.— Pat Larson
- [May 9, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-9-2023/) - Every adversity, heartbreak or problem comes with the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit...if we will only stop to look.— Napoleon Hill
- [May 2, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-2-2023/) - Bounce back quickly from temporary setbacks. Treat mistakes as opportunities to grow. Learn from them; use them to propel you forward.— Bob Moawad
- [April 25, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-25-2023/) - Exploit a failure; don't waste it.— Charles Kettering
- [April 18, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-18-2023/) - I don't ever want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.— Emma Watson
- [April 11, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-11-2023/) - Success will come to you in direct proportion to the number of times you are willing to risk failure.— Bill Meyer
- [April 4, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-4-2023/) - You only make mistakes if you're doing real work and getting things done.— Carrol Tyler
- [March 28, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-28-2023/) - Those who aren't making mistakes probably aren't making anything.— Samuel Smiles
- [March 21, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-21-2023/) - We are all failures, at least the best of us are.— James Barrie
- [March 14, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-14-2023/) - Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful— that's what matters to me.— Steve Jobs
- [March 7, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-7-2023/) - The greatest crime in the world is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping others.— Roger Williams
- [February 28, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-28-2023/) - Excellence is not merely a skill, it is an attitude and a belief.— Ralph Marston
- [February 21, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-21-2023/) - Don't make money your goal. Pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can't take their eyes off you.— Maya Angelou
- [February 14, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-14-2023/) - Failures are few among people who have found work they enjoy doing enough to do it well. You invest time in your work, invest love in it too. — Clarence Flynn
- [February 7, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-7-2023/) - To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well, is an absolutely marvelous feeling. — Barbara Walters
- [January 31, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-31-2023/) - Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value. — Albert Einstein
- [January 24, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-24-2023/) - You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need. — Jerry Gillies
- [January 17, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-17-2023/) - There's a voice inside you - listen for it. It is calling you to the joy and satisfaction of your real work. — Mark David
- [January 10, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-10-2023/) - Any activity becomes creative if the doer cares about doing it right or better. — John Updike
- [January 3, 2023](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-3-2023/) - Anything you're good at contributes to happiness. — Bertrand Russell
- [December 27, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-27-2022/) - Whatever you are, be a good one. — Abraham Lincoln
- [December 20, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-20-2022/) - Cherish your visions, your ideals, the music that stirs in your heart. If you remain true to them, your world will at last be built. — James Allen
- [December 13, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-13-2022/) - Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it's realistic or not. — Deepak Chopra
- [December 6, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-6-2022/) - Say yes to yourself, your family, your children, your coworkers, and your business...and your life will move from ordinary to extraordinary.— Wayne Dyer
- [November 29, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-29-2022/) - I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying yes than by saying no. — Richard Branson
- [November 22, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-22-2022/) - Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. — Albert Schweitzer
- [November 15, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-15-2022/) - If you love what you do, you will never work another day in your life. — Confucius
- [November 8, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-8-2022/) - As you cherish the things most worthwhile in your family life, cherish the things most worthwhile in your work life. — William Given
- [November 1, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-1-2022/) - You have to have your heart in the business, and the business in your heart. — Thomas Watson, Sr.
- [October 25, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-25-2022/) - Above all, follow your star, and if you cannot put your heart in it, take yourself out of it. — Hardy Jackson
- [October 18, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-18-2022/) - Chase your passion, not your pension. — Denis Waitley
- [October 11, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-11-2022/) - We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our heart. — John Ruskin
- [October 4, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-4-2022/) - Life is energy in motion. The higher your energy level, the fuller your life. — Mark David
- [September 27, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-27-2022/) - Live life as an exclamation rather than an explanation. — Bob Newton
- [September 20, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-20-2022/) - Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead. — Louisa May Alcott
- [September 13, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-13-2022/) - Make the invisible visible. — Mark David
- [September 6, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-6-2022/) - Map out your future, but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip. — Jon Bon Jovi
- [August 30, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-30-2022/) - Come my friends, 'tis not too late to seek a newer world. — Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- [August 23, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-23-2022/) - If you don't have a dream, how are you going to have a dream come true? — Faye Lapointe
- [August 16, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-16-2022/) - If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one. — John Galsworthy
- [August 9, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-9-2022/) - Dreams aren't a matter of chance, but a matter of choice. When I dream, I believe I am rehearsing my future. — David Copperfield
- [August 2, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-2-2022/) - Plan you life according to your dreams, not your watch. — Unknown
- [July 26, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-26-2022/) - Goal setting is the process of turning dreams into plans, and your plans into realities. — Gary Medica
- [July 19th, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-19th-2022/) - Goals stretch your heart and make you big inside again. — Sarah Ban Breathnach
- [July 12, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-12-2022/) - The world ages us too fast. We grow up too quickly, we stop dreaming too early, and we develop the ability to worry at far too young an age. — Doug Wecker
- [July 5, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-5-2022/) - Why do people give up big dreams for small realities? — Kevin Costner
- [June 28, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-28-2022/) - Reach beyond your grasp. Your goals should be grand enough to get the best of you.— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
- [June 21, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-21-2022/) - In the long run we really do shape our own lives; and then together we shape the world around us. The process never ends until we die, and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. — Eleanor Roosevelt
- [June 14, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-14-2022/) - You are the one who can stretch your own horizon . — Edgar Magnin
- [June 7, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-7-2022/) - My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. — Oprah Winfrey
- [May 31, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-31-2022/) - Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working. — Pablo Picasso
- [May 24, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-24-2022/) - Bad start is no excuse. Too old or too young is no excuse. There is simply no bona fide excuse for not being super happy and successful. You control what you become. — Scott Alexander
- [May 17, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-17-2022/) - Choice, not circumstance, determines your success. — Glen Rowse
- [May 10, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-10-2022/) - There will be those who will tell you that you can't make it because of where you live, because of how you look, because of the way you talk. We all have heard that. I almost listened.— L. Douglas Wilder
- [May 3, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-3-2022/) - We must exchange the philosophy of excuses — what I am is beyond my control — for the philosophy of responsibility. — Barbara Jordan
- [April 26, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-26-2022/) - What you plan and choose to do today can improve all your tomorrows. — Paul Carroll
- [April 19, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-19-2022/) - This is your life. If you don't have a plan for yourself, you'll be part of someone else's plan - you'll be living someone else's life.— Dave Croft
- [April 12, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-12-2022/) - I am responsible for my own well-being, my own happiness. The choices and decisions I make directly influence the quality of my days.— Kathleen Andrus
- [April 5, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-5-2022/) - I am behind the wheel of my life.— Denis Waitley
- [March 29, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-29-2022/) - No one is coming. Put the rest of your life in good hands: your own.— Mark David
- [March 22, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-22-2022/) - Judge success not just by what you have accomplished, but by the person you have become.— Ranjana Clark
- [March 15, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-15-2022/) - Let your life be defined by the things you pursue, rather than the things you possess. — Bobby Hendries
- [March 8, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-8-2022/) - The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.— John Burroughs
- [March 1, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-1-2022/) - Our aspirations are our possibilities. — Robert Browning
- [February 22, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-22-2022/) - Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms— if you will only let them.— William James
- [February 15, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-15-2022/) - That Mission statement up on the wall is your guiding star. If you aren't going to live by it, then tear it down.— Vince Pfaff
- [February 8, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-8-2022/) - Seek out that particular attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, 'This is the real me,' and when you have found that...follow it.— William James
- [February 1, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-1-2022/) - Declare your mission and then live it.— Tom Welch
- [January 25, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-25-2022/) - Life owes us a little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.— John Marm Brown
- [January 18, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-18-2022/) - Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.— Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium
- [January 11, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-11-2022/) - Dedicate your life to a cause greater than yourself, and your life will become a glorious romance and adventure.— Mack Douglas
- [January 4, 2022](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-4-2022/) - The best use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.— William James
- [December 28, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-28-2021/) - Believe in something big. Your life is worth a noble motive.— Walter Anderson
- [December 21, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-21-2021/) - Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.— Jim Rohn
- [December 14, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-14-2021/) - What will you do matters. All you need to do is do it.— Judy Grahn
- [December 7, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-7-2021/) - If your number one concern is to make sure that everyone likes and approves of you, then you have sacrificed your uniqueness and, therefore, your excellence.— Dan Zadra
- [November 30, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-30-2021/) - We're not meant to fit in. We're meant to stand out.— Sarah Ban Breathnach
- [November 23, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-23-2021/) - If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.— Martin Luther King, Jr.
- [November 16, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-16-2021/) - Nothing is beneath you if it's your direction in life.— Ralph Waldo Emerson
- [November 9, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-9-2021/) - 'What is my job on the planet?' is one question we might do well to ask ourselves over and over again. Otherwise, we may wind up doing somebody else's job and not even know it.— Jon Kabat-Zinn
- [November 2, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-2-2021/) - Life expects something of you, and it is up to every individual to discover what it should be.— Victor Frankl
- [October 26, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-26-2021/) - The circumstances of your life have uniquely qualified you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.— Rabbi Harold Kushner
- [October 19, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-19-2021/) - There are many wonderful things that will never be done if you do not do them.— Charles D. Gill
- [October 12, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-12-2021/) - There is only one of you in the world, just one, and if that is not fulfilled then something has been lost.— Martha Graham
- [October 5, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-5-2021/) - Be yourself. No one else is qualified.— Doug Orr
- [September 28, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-28-2021-2/) - Let's dare to be ourselves, for we do that better than anyone else can.— Shirley Briggs
- [September 21, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-28-2021/) - There's a difference between reputation and character. Reputation is who people think you are; character is who you really are. Reputation comes from others; character is in you.— Carol O' Reilly
- [September 14, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-14-2021/) - I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think I do.— Theodore Roosevelt
- [September 7, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-7-2021/) - Being honest may not get you a lot of friends, but it will always get you the right ones.— John Lennon
- [August 31, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-31-2021/) - It takes courage for a person to listen to their own goodness and act on it.— Pablo Casals
- [August 24, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-24-2021/) - If you want trust, trust others. If you want respect, respect others. If you want help, help others. If you want love and peace in your life, give them away. If you want great friends, be one. That's how it works.— Dan Zadra
- [August 17, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-17-2021/) - Treat everyone you meet with dignity and respect.— John Wooden
- [August 10, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-10-2021/) - A recent survey asked 500 Fortune 1500 executives to identify their most important success principle. The most frequent answer was some variation of 'Do unto others...'— Bill Meyer
- [August 3, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-3-2021/) - The first rule: The Golden Rule.— Jon Parks
- [July 27, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-27-2021/) - Being a good human being is good business.— Paul Hawken
- [July 6, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-6-2021/) - We are very near to greatness: one step and we are safe; can we not take the leap?— Ralph Waldo Emerson
- [June 29, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-29-2021/) - It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning.— Gene Roddenberry
- [June 22, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-22-2021/) - We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.— Rainer Maria Rilke
- [June 15, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-15-2021/) - There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation.— Jim Rohn
- [June 8, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-8-2021/) - Our children will create a world we cannot imagine; they will accomplish things we cannot even dream.— Kathleen T. Shaw
- [June 1, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-1-2021/) - There are no boundaries— only possibilities.— Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche
- [May 25, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-25-2021/) - The reality is that changes are coming. They must come. We must all share in bringing them. — John Hersey
- [May 18, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-18-2021/) - The future is in the hands of those who can give tomorrow's generations reasons to hope.— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin
- [May 11, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-11-2021/) - We can't see the future; about all we know is that it will be spectacular.— Unknown
- [May 4, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-4-2021/) - We always underestimate the future.— Charles F. Kettering
- [April 27, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-27-2021/) - The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.— J.B.S. Haldane
- [April 20, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-20-2021/) - Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.— Mary Oliver
- [April 13, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-13-2021/) - The best is yet to be.— Robert Browning
- [April 6, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-6-2021/) - Together we have the power, knowledge and experience to create a world beyond our wonder. Only loss of nerve can prevent us. That is all, loss of nerve.— James Dillet Freeman
- [March 30, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-30-2021/) - What we do today, right now, will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows.— Alexandra Stoddard
- [March 23, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-23-2021/) - Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching out to mend the part of the world that is within our reach.— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
- [March 16, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-16-2021/) - We forget that we ourselves are a part of history, and that we are condemned to perish if we lose the capacity for further growth and change.— Herman Hesse
- [March 9, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-9-2021/) - Nearly every problem our world faces is currently being solved or leveraged by someone in the world. Imagine if we could only get all these good hearts and minds connected so that we can collectively tackle our problems.— Diane Branson
- [March 2, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-2-2021/) - The best hope of solving all our problems lies in harnessing the diversity, the energy and the creativity of all our people.— Roger Wilkins
- [February 23, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-23-2021/) - Every problem, adversity or setback carries with it the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit, if you will only stop to look.— Napoleon Hill
- [February 16, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-16-2021/) - Never waste a good crisis.— Mark David
- [February 9, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-9-2021/) - Knowing that we can make a difference in the world is a great motivator. How can we know this and not be involved?— Susan Jeffers
- [February 2, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-2-2021/) - The circumstances of your life uniquely qualify you to make a contribution. And if you don't make that contribution, nobody else can make it.— Rabbi Harold Kushner
- [January 26, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-26-2021/) - From where we are, and who we are in our everyday life, that's where we make change.— Toshi Reagon
- [January 19, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-19-2021/) - We are called upon to become creators, to make the world new and in that sense to bring something into being which was not there before.— John Elof Boodin
- [January 12, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-12-2021/) - The world's problems cannot be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men and women who can dream of things that never were.— John F. Kennedy
- [January 5, 2021](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-5-2021/) - It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you get it almost right. All that matters is that you get it right in the end.— Mark Cuban
- [December 29, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-29-2020/) - Much of the satisfying work of life begins as an experiment - and no experiment is ever quite a failure.— Alice Walker
- [December 22, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-22-2020/) - Don't be discouraged by setbacks or failure. Failure is a normal, natural way of mapping the unknown.— Jack Matson
- [December 15, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-15-2020/) - Sometimes things can go right only by first going very wrong.— Edward Tenner
- [December 8, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-8-2020/) - Don't just tolerate your erros - honor them. Think of innovation as systematic error management.— Kevin Kelly
- [December 1, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-1-2020/) - The only errors to avoid making are those that eliminate opportunities to try again.— Lazar Goldberg
- [November 24, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-24-2020/) - To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All we have to do is swear off having ideas.— Leo Burnett
- [November 17, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-17-2020/) - Mistakes are the portal of discovery.— James Joyce
- [November 10, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-10-2020/) - Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it's done, and done right.— Walt Disney
- [November 3, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-3-2020/) - I could not sleep when I got on the hunt for a new idea.— Abraham Lincoln
- [October 27, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-27-2020/) - Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.— Louis Pasteur
- [October 20, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-20-2020/) - Neutralize resistance with persistence.— Unknown
- [October 13, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-13-2010/) - When you have exhausted all other possibilities, remember this: you haven't.— Thomas Edison
- [October 6, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-6-2020/) - One idea leads to another. The teapot led Fulton to the steam engine, which led to the gas combustion engine, which led to the rocket propulsion system, which took us to the moon and back. — Trust Your Crazy Ideas
- [September 29, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-29-2020/) - If I have been able to see further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants.— Isaac Newton
- [September 22, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-22-2020/) - Ideas build on ideas. The primitive wheel, lever, awl, pulley, diode and transistor built on each other to become the modern computer.— Dan Zadra
- [September 15, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-15-2020/) - Original ideas come from reassembling old knowledge in new ways.— Leon Botstein
- [September 8, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-8-2020/) - Originality is not just doing something no one else has ever done, but doing what has been done countless times with new life, new breath.— Marie Chaplan
- [September 1, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-1-2020/) - To put something in the world that was not there before, you have to be able to see that which others before you have overlooked.— George Vaillant
- [August 25, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-25-2020/) - Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear. But only the wisest of cats would think to look there.— Scott Love
- [August 18, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-18-2020/) - To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.— George Orwell
- [August 11, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-11-2020/) - Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon
- [August 4, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-4-2020/) - Most new discoveries are suddenly seen things that were always there.— Susanne K. Langer
- [July 28, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-28-2020/) - Merely looking at the world around us is immensely different from seeing it. — Frederick Franck
- [July 21, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-21-2020/) - The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new lands, but in seeing the world with fresh eyes.— Marcel Proust
- [July 14, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-14-2020/) - Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought.— A. Szent-Gyorgi
- [July 7, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-7-2020/) - Make your plans as fantastic as you like because 25 years from now they will seem mediocre. Make your plans 10 times as great as you first planned, and 25 years from now you will wonder why did not make them 50 times as great.— Henry Curtis
- [June 30, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-30-2020/) - It's not who we are that holds us back, it's who we think we're not.— Michael Nolan
- [June 23, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-23-2020/) - The only real risk is the risk of thinking too small.— Francis Moore Lappe
- [June 16, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-16-2020/) - Fortune favors the audacious.— Erasmus
- [June 9, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-9-2020/) - We will build a motor car for the great multitude. It will be so low in price that no man making a good wage will be unable to own one.— Henry Ford
- [June 2, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-2-2020/) - We shall make electricity so cheap that only the rich can afford to burn candles.— Thomas Edison
- [May 26, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-26-2020/) - We will put a man on the moon in this decade.— John F. Kennedy
- [May 19, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-19-2020/) - We will put a computer on every desk.— Steve Jobs, 1977
- [May 12, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-12-2020/) - We all love big ideas. If a company lacks enthusiasm, if the people are bored, it's time for a big idea to rally around.— Mark David
- [May 5, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-5-2020/) - Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir your blood. Make big plans. Aim high in work and life.— Daniel Hudson Burnham
- [Hello world!](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/hello-world/) - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
- [April 28, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-28-2020/) - High intention sets the universe in motion.— Armand Hammer
- [April 21, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-21-2020/) - I dare you, while there is still time, to have magnificent obsession.— William Danforth
- [April 14, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-14-2020/) - Set your sights high, the higher the better. Expect the most wonderful things to happen, not in the future, but right now.— Eileen Caddy
- [April 7, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-7-2020/) - The question should be, is it worth trying to do, not can it be done.— Allard Lowenstein
- [March 31, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-31-2020/) - There is no such thing as can't, only won't.— Jan Ashford
- [March 24, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-24-2020/) - Back of ninety-nine out of 100 assertions that a thing cannot be done is nothing but the unwillingness to do it.— William Feather
- [March 17, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-17-2020/) - The impossible is often the untried.— Jim Goodwin
- [March 10, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-10-2020/) - You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.— J.K. Rowling
- [March 3, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-3-2020/) - Imagination defies limitations.— Mark David
- [February 25, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-25-2020/) - Never tell someone that something can't be done. God may have waited centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.— J.R. Holmes
- [February 18, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-18-2020/) - It can be lucky for you if you don't know a thing can't be done so you can proceed blithely.— Alfred Hitchcock
- [February 11, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-11-2020/) - At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done - then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done long ago.— Frances H. Burnett
- [February 4, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-4-2020/) - Anyone with a new idea is a crank - until the idea succeeds.— Mark Twain
- [January 28, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-28-2020/) - Just 18 months before the Wright Brothers flew at Kittyhawk, a renowned British scientist named Simon Newcomb proved that heavier-than-air flight was 'impossible'.— Beware of the Experts
- [January 21, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-21-2020/) - Listen to the experts. They'll tell you what can't be done. Then go ahead and do it.— Lazarus Long
- [January 14, 2020](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-7-2020/) - Every noble work is at first impossible.— Thomas Carlyle
- [December 31, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-31-2019/) - Not only have I broken all the rules I learned about - I have broken rules I didn't even know existed.— Martin Scorsese
- [December 24, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-24-2019/) - The best leaders are apt to be found among those who have a strong component of unorthodoxy in their character. Instead of resisting innovation, they symbolize it.— David Ogilvy
- [December 17, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-17-2019/) - To each of us, there come opportunities to rearrange our formulas and assumptions — not necessarily to be rid of the old, but more to profit from adding something new .— Leo Buscaglia
- [December 10, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-10-2019/) - The innovator is not an opponent of the old. He or she is a proponent of the new.— Lyle E. Schaller
- [December 3, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-3-2019/) - Don't be confined by reality or precedent. Think about what could be accomplished if there were no boundaries. — James Fantus
- [November 26, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-26-2019/) - Don't follow trends, start trends.— Frank Capra
- [November 19, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-19-2019/) - Imagination continually frustrates tradition. That's its job.— John Pfeiffer
- [November 12, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-12-2019/) - In business or in life, don’t follow the wagon tracks too closely.— Gerald Croft
- [November 5, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-5-2019/) - Creative thinking may simply mean the realization that there's no particular virtue in doing things the way they have always been done.— Rudolph Flesch
- [October 29, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-29-2019/) - Never leave well enough alone.— Raymond Loewy
- [October 22, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-22-2019/) - Dissatisfaction is the basis of progress. When we become satisfied, we become obsolete.— J. Willard Marriott, Jr.
- [October 15, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-15th-2019/) - I hope the day will never come when the American nation will be the champion of the status quo.— John Foster Dulles
- [October 8, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-8th-2019/) - The most damaging phrase in the English language is: "We've always done it this way".— Admiral Grace Hopper
- [October 1, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-1-2019/) - Whoever invented the first wheel was smart. Whoever invented the other three was a genius.— Sid Caesar
- [September 24, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-24-2019/) - Many of my best inventions came from taking the creative but misdirected ideas of others and making them work.— Thomas Edison
- [September 17, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-17-2019/) - There's no shortage of remarkable ideas, what's missing is the will to follow them through to reality.— Seth Godin
- [September 10, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-10-2019/) - If you don't execute your ideas, they'll die.— Unknown
- [September 3, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-3-2019/) - I don't create companies for the sake of creating companies, but to get things done.— Elon Musk
- [August 27, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-27-2019/) - Invention is the natural outcome of creative thinking.— Sark
- [August 20, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-20-2019/) - A person likes marvelous things; so he invents them, and is astonished.— Edgar Howe
- [August 13, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-13-2019/) - The passion to make and make again.— Adrienne Rich
- [August 6, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-6-2019/) - The innovator is that creative maverick who is willing to do whatever it takes to make the great idea a working reality.— Michael Leboeuf
- [July 30, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-30-2019/) - We can do more than imagine, we can create. We can do more than create, we can innovate.— Vince Pfaff
- [July 23, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-23-2019/) - Those who dream by night awake to find it was vanity. But the dreamers of day are dangerous; they may act out their dreams with open eyes to make them possible.— T.E. Lawrence
- [July 16, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-16-2019/) - A dream without a plan is just a wish.— Carol O'Reilly
- [July 9, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-9-2019/) - The world needs dreamers, and the world needs doers. But above all, the world needs dreamers who do.— Sara Ban Breathnach
- [July 2nd, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-2nd-2019/) - Someone scribbles a wild idea on the back of a napkin. Or dreams an impossible dream over coffee at their kitchen table. This is exactly how many of the world's most successful ideas and enterprises still get their start.— Trust Your Crazy Ideas
- [June 25, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-25-2019/) - Dream and the future takes form.— Don McAvoy Sr.
- [June 18, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-18-2019/) - Great deeds and great thoughts often have a ridiculous beginning. The ideas for great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.— Albert Camus
- [June 11, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-11-2019/) - The next time your mind wanders, follow it around for a while.— Jessica Masterson
- [June 4, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-4-2019/) - Your dreams are not meant to put you to sleep, but to alert and arouse you to your immense possibilities.— David Phillips
- [May 28, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-28-2019/) - Think of dreams and goals as the coming attractions in your life.— Joseph Campbell
- [May 21, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-21-2019/) - Every day, thousands of ideas, impulses, hunches and intuitions race through your brain. Some are pure genius. Give them the red light long enough to at least write them down.— Ralph Ford
- [May 14, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-14-2019/) - A hunch is a creativity trying to tell you something. It's the voice of invention calling you forward.— Frank Capra
- [May 7, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-7-2019/) - We should see dreaming as one of our responsibilities, rather than an alternative to one.— Mary Engelbreit
- [April 30, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-30-2019/) - Set aside time every day to think and dream for yourself.— Albert Einstein
- [April 23, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-23-2019/) - Dreams are extremely important. You can't do it unless you first imagine it.— George Lucas
- [April 16, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-16-2019/) - The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.— Margaret E. Sangster
- [April 9, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-9-2019/) - Everything starts as somebody's daydream.— Larry Niven
- [April 2, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-2-2019/) - Anyone can look for fashion in a boutique or history in a museum. The creative explorer looks for history in a hardware store and fashion in an airport.— Robert S. Weider
- [March 26, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-26-2019/) - A good explorer knows that looking for ideas is like prospecting for gold. If you look in the same old places as everyone else, you'll find tapped-out veins.— Roger Von Oech
- [March 19, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-19-2019/) - Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.— Ralph Waldo Emerson
- [March 12, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-12-2019/) - Get off the beaten track. Have adventures.— Gary Medica
- [March 5, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-5-2019/) - The best leaders are not interested in promoting their own ideas, but in finding the best ideas. They are not interested in having their own way, but in finding the best way.— Dan Zadra
- [February 26, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-26-2019/) - Leadership today is less about what we know and more about what we're willing to discover.— Diane Branson
- [February 19, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-19-2019/) - If the future is to remain open and free, we have to have people who can tolerate the unknown, who will not need the support of worked-out systems, whether they be traditional ones from the past or blueprints of the future. — Margaret Mead
- [February 12, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-12-2019/) - Today's leader must have the spirit of adventure - the pioneer spirit which blazes new trails.— Mary Parker Follett
- [February 5, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-5-2019/) - Every company needs torchbearers. These are the people who embrace new ideas and champion the charge to have them implemented. — Rob Gilbert
- [January 29, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-29-2019/) - Anything one person can imagine, other people can make real.— Jules Verne
- [January 22, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-22-2019/) - Pioneers are special people. 'First' is always difficult. We don't know that things can be done, that dreams can be fulfilled, that great accomplishments can be realized until somebody takes that first step.— Geraldine Neckiman
- [January 15, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-15-2019/) - A frontier is never just a place; it is a time and a way of life. Frontiers pass, but they endure in their people. — Hal Borland
- [January 8, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-8-2019/) - The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality, the opening of new frontiers.— Arthur Koestler
- [January 1, 2019](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-1-2019/) - Bring in lots of crazy-sounding ideas and entertain them royally. One of them may be king.— Craig Dunn
- [December 25, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-25-2018/) - Write down one idea every day. In six months you'll have more ideas than most people have in a lifetime.— Breakthrough Strategies
- [December 18, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-18-2018/) - Ideas are like little fish. Throw thousands out in the water. Only a handful will survive, but that is enough.— Unknown
- [December 11, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-11-2018/) - You may have to kiss a lot of frogs to find a prince.— 3M Innovation Team
- [December 4, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/december-4-2018/) - The entrepreneur finds a need and fills it; the innovator anticipates or creates a need and fills it.— Denis Waitley
- [November 27, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-27-2018/) - See things as you would have them be, instead of as they are.— Robert Collier
- [November 20, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-20-2018/) - To stay ahead, you must always have your next idea waiting in the wings.— Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- [November 13, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-13-2018/) - Contentment is the smother of invention.— Ethel Mumford
- [November 6, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/november-6-2018/) - A single idea can transform a life, a family, a company, a community, a world.— Dan Zadra
- [October 30, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-30-2018/) - Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.— Ken Hakuta
- [October 23, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-23-2018/) - It's better to have the philosophy to out-think your competition than outspend them.— Les Wolff
- [October 16, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-16-2018/) - More than ever before, business today moves at the speed of ideas.— Glen Rowse
- [October 9, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-9-2018/) - Success is often just an idea away.— Frank Tyger
- [October 2, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/october-2-2018/) - Get ready! Ideas move very quickly when their time comes.— Carolyn Heilburn
- [September 25, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-25-2018/) - Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.— George Bernard Shaw
- [September 18, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-18-2018/) - A genius is a person who aims at something no one else can see and hits it— Ervin Glaspy
- [September 11, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-11-2018/) - The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious.— John Sculley
- [September 4, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/september-4-2018/) - The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our lives.— Daniel J. Boorstin
- [August 28, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-28-2018/) - Imagination is more important than knowledge.— Albert Einstein
- [August 21, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-21-2018/) - If you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.— Alice Walker
- [August 14, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-14-2018/) - Our imagination flies. We are its shadow on the earth.— Vladimir Nabokov
- [August 7, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/august-7-2018/) - Just think of something that would be wonderful if it were only possible - and then set out to make it possible. — Armand Hammer
- [July 31, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-31-2018/) - To be human is to be creative. You don't have to go outside yourself to find creativity - you already have it. It lives in your heart and mind in every moment of every day. — Sandra Magasandra
- [July 24, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-24-2018/) - The common gift of humanity is that we are all hard-wired to solve problems by creating new solutions. — John P. Kotter
- [July 17, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-17-2018/) - Imagination is the secret reservoir of the riches of the human race. — Maude Frandsen
- [July 10, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-10-2018/) - Imagination and innovation are in our DNA. — Bill Meyer
- [July 3, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/july-3-2018/) - The future is made in the present. What will you do today that will matter tomorrow? — Ralph Marston
- [June 26, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-26-2018/) - Your brain is not a museum for the past, or a lumber room for the present; it is a laboratory for the future. — John Frederick Fuller
- [June 19, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-19-2018/) - The greatest thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. — Goethe
- [June 12, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-12-2018/) - Light tomorrow with today. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- [June 5, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/june-5-2018/) - Start with the end in mind. Look at things not as they are, but as they can be. We aren't stuck with the present. — David Schwartz
- [May 29, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-29-2018/) - Make visible what, without you, might perhaps have never been seen. — Robert Bresson
- [May 22, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-22-2018/) - Believe in your ability to visualize and create the future. That's what leaders do. That is our job — Mark Miller
- [May 15, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-15-2018/) - Business is an instinctive exercise in foresight. — Henry Luce
- [May 8, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-8-2018/) - It is our ability to invent the future that gives us hope and makes us what we are. — Dennis Gabor
- [May 1, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/may-1-2018/) - The future is not some place we are going to, but a place we are creating. The paths to it are not found, they are made. — Jane Garvey
- [April 24, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-24-2018/) - For the first time in all time, a living creature understands its origin and can undertake to design its future. — Robert Sinsheimer
- [April 17, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-17-2018/) - My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there. — Charles F. Kettering
- [April 10, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-10-2018/) - The best way to predict the future is to invent it. — Alan Kay
- [April 3, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/april-3-2018/) - There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and change, and achievement. — Alan Cohen
- [March 27, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-27-2018/) - It's more fun to build the future than polish the past. — Frank Vizzare
- [March 20, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-20-2018/) - The passion to change and innovate will continue to distinguish a market leader from a follower. — Steve Jobs
- [March 13, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-13-2018/) - Whatever made you successful in the past won't in the future. — Lew Platt
- [March 6, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/march-6-2018/) - Change before you have to. Willingness to adapt and change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while. — Jack Welch
- [February 27, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-27-2018/) - Creativity is the best and most dependable response to massive change. — Dan Zadra
- [February 20, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-20-2018/) - The true innovator welcomes new ideas. He or she is flexible and adaptable and prepared to rearrange his/her thinking. — A.J. Cropley
- [February 13, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-13-2018/) - One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. — Walter Bagehot
- [February 6, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/february-6-2018/) - Businessmen go down with their business because they like the old way so well they cannot bring themselves to change. — Henry Ford
- [January 30, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-30-2018/) - Not all organizations adapt equally well to the environment within they grow. Many, like the dinosaur, remain unchanged in a changing world. — Charles Handy
- [January 23, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-23-2018/) - We are living in a time of unprecedented change. Companies that resist change will lose; companies that embrace change will thrive.— Mark David
- [January 16, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-16-2018/) - Every organization has to prepare for the abandonment of everything it does.— Peter Drucker
- [January 9, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/january-9-2018/) - Change is in the air; breathe deeply— Mark David
- [January 2, 2018](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/01-2-2018/) - High-integrity workplaces don't get that way by accident, coincidence, or luck.— Eric Harvey
- [December 26, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/12-26-2017/) - Be the change you wish to see in the world — Mohandas Ghandi
- [December 19, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/12-19-2017/) - Whatever you are meant to do, move toward it, and it will come to you.— Gloria Dunn
- [December 12, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/12-12-2017/) - The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot.— Michael Althsuler
- [December 5, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/12-5-2017/) - Keep dreaming, wishing, and planning. There’s immeasurable power in it.— Laura Smith
- [November 28, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/11-28-2017/) - You have to have your heart in the business, and the business in your heart.— Thomas Watson, Sr.
- [November 21, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/11-21-2017/) - The key is to live a proactive life in a reactive world.— Mark David
- [November 13, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/11-13-2017/) - It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. — Charles Darwin
- [November 7, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/11-7-2017/) - I start with the premise that the function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.— Ralph Nader
- [October 31, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/10-31-2017/) - Bet on people, not strategies.— Larry Bossidy
- [October 24, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/10-24-2017/) - A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business.-— Henry Ford
- [October 17, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/10-17-2017/) - If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.— John Galsworthy
- [October 10, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/10-10-2017/) - Praise progress. — Mark David
- [October 3, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/10-03-2017/) - The more you are you, the more you will do.— Mark David
- [September 26, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/09-26-2017/) - Perform one exceptional act of customer courtesy each day. Multiply it by everyone in your organization. Such is the stuff of revolutions.— Tom Peters
- [September 19, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/09-19-2017/) - Leaders don’t resist innovation, they symbolize it.— David Ogilvy
- [September 12, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/9-12-2017/) - No one is coming…you alone are responsible for your success.— Mark David
- [September 5, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/09-05-2017/) - Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.— Belva Davis
- [August 29 , 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/08-29-2017/) - Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again.— Walt Disney
- [August 22, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/08-22-2017/) - Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life.— Golda Meir
- [August 15, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/8-15-2017/) - Creativity is the most effective response to rapid change. — Robert Porter Lynch
- [August 8, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/08-8-2017/) - Celebrate what you want to see more of. — Tom Peters
- [July 25, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/7-25-2017/) - Great leaders make the impossible possible by making the invisible visible for others. —Mark David
- [July 18, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/7-18-2017/) - Change is inevitable; growth is optional. — Glenda Cloud
- [July 11, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/7-11-2017/) - Leadership is action, not position.— Donald H. McGannon
- [June 20, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/6-20-2017/) - You are the one who can stretch your own horizon.— Edgar Magnin
- [June 13, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/6-13-2017/) - Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.— Alice Walker
- [June 6, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/6-6-2017/) - Set your organization up for success by lighting the path with a crystal-clear Vision, Mission and Core Values, and a strategic action plan. — Mark David
- [May 23, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/5-23-2017/) - Coaching isn't an addition to a leader's job; it's an integral part of it.— George S. Odiorne
- [May 9, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/5-9-2017/) - If nothing every changed, there’d be no butterflies. — Unknown
- [April 25, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/4-25-2017/) - When people go to work they shouldn’t have to leave their hearts at home.— Betty Bender
- [April 18, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/4-18-2017/) - Ultimately there can be no success or happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do— Freya Stark
- [April 11, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/4-11-2017/) - Part of true success, whether it’s in life or in business, is understanding there’s something bigger and more important than ourselves.—Marcia Ann Gillespie
- [April 4, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/4-4-2017/) - Whenever I get to a low point, I go back to the basics. I ask myself, “Why am I doing this?” It comes down to passion.— Lyn St. James
- [March 14, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/3-14-2017/) - Responsible people own the responsibility of creating their reality.— Mark David
- [February 21, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/2-21-2017/) - Help others to achieve their dreams, and you will achieve yours.— Les Brown
- [February 14, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/2-14-2017/) - It may be in fact utterly impossible to be successful without helping others be successful.— Maya Angelou
- [February 7, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/2-7-2017/) - Spend one-on-one time with each team member. Validate their value. Inspire their true potential.— Mark David
- [January 31, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/1-31-2017/) - The keys to unlocking human potential are conveniently located inside ourselves.— Mark David
- [January 24, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/1-24-2017/) - You manage things; you lead people. — Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper
- [January 17, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/1-17-2017/) - The clearer you communicate your values, the easier it is to attract the right people to your organization. — Dennis Goin
- [January 10, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/1-10-2017/) - People want to make a difference and be respected for their contributions. Is that a surprise?— Paul Ames
- [January 3, 2017](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/1-3-2017/) - Those with whom we work look to us for heat as well as light.— Woodrow Wilson
- [December 27, 2016](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/12-27-2016/) - Regret over yesterday and anxiety about tomorrow are the twin thieves that rob you of your brilliance. Focus on the one moment over which you have complete control---now.— Mark David
- [November 29, 2016](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/11-29-2016/) - Listen closely to your IVOR (Internal Voice of Reasoning)— Mark David
- [November 15, 2016](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/11-15-2016/) - Successful organizations do not foster “we and they” attitudes.— Tom Peters
- [November 14, 2016](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/11-14-2016/) - If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.— John Quincy Adams
- [August 30, 2016](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/8-30-2016/) - As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.— Bill Gates
- [August 16, 2016](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/08-16-2016/) - Adapt to the winds of change. Be the palm tree instead of the oak. In a storm, the palm tree bends, but it does not break. — Mark David
- [August 2, 2016](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/8-2-2016/) - When people act heroically, treat them as heroes. — Jeff Goforth
- [July 26, 2106](https://markdaviddev.wpenginepowered.com/7-26-2016/) - The ones who think they are crazy enough to change the world, are the ones who do. — Steve Jobs

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