“We sell feelings, status, and connection, not tasks or stuff.” — Seth Godin, author of This Is Marketing “Don’t steal my joy,” one of you said to me. Those were the final words of our discussion. My intentions had been good. I was trying to buy something – but she wanted to make it a…
“Just because it didn’t work doesn’t mean it was the wrong choice.The world is full of probabilities, not certainties.Find a game where the probabilities favor you and keep taking shots.” — James Clear, author of Atomic Habits Need a last-minute Halloween costume? I have one for you! On Halloween a few years ago, my husband…
“Price is what you pay; value is what you get.” – Warren Buffett, who credits Ben Graham Every price tag in your store sends a message. You might be thinking, “Wait a minute. You mean prices say more than what I am simply charging for an item?” And the answer is, “Yes.” When I had…
“I realized that there’s a fundamental problem with a game if you leave the game in the middle of the game. And so we said, all right, well, what if we made our own rules?” — Jesse Cole, owner of the Savannah Bananas · PBS News, July 4, 2025 “Why aren’t you coming to our…
“Where focus goes, energy flows.” — Tony Robbins, author and performance coach My husband had time to think about what happened the night before, and as soon as I woke up, he asked, “What were you staring at so hard?” “The center light!” I explained. My Catholic girlfriends, as I lovingly call them, planned a…
“We don’t come out of the womb knowing who we are. In the beginning, we learn by pretending to be our heroes.” — Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist As I put together our son’s rehearsal dinner invitation, I thought, “Wow. Things have changed.” Not the invitation itself. The way I made it. In under…
“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home.” — Carl Sagan, astronomer and author, Pale Blue Dot (1994) I watched a YouTube video about stars a few weeks ago. Now my feed is full of astronomy videos. Know that routine? Ha! It’s taken me down some rabbit holes. And in my head, it always…
“You can’t do business from an empty wagon.” — an old peddler’s saying, carried into the business world by a 1949 Dun & Bradstreet poster The other night my family came for dinner. I decided to do burgers. Our GroupMe blew up with who could come and who could not. I flew to the store…
“No one is born with skill. It is developed through exercise, through repetition, through a blend of learning and reflection that’s both painstaking and rewarding. And it takes time.” — Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit (2003) “Where’s that at?” she said. “Behind the at,” he said. She looked at me. “What?” she asked. I explained….
Catch the Dots “The world cannot be understood without numbers, and it cannot be understood with numbers alone.” — Hans Rosling, Factfulness My husband looked pretty funny. He had his phone above his head, staring up at it and walking in messy looking circles. He was trying to find the right spot for Starlink. He…