Quote of the Day: 21 May 2026 #QotD

“Purpose isn’t about tapping into some mystical internal drive but rather about creating simple beacons that focus attention and engagement on the shared goal.” -Daniel Coyle
[Signaling a clear objective is essential to creating purpose. You can do it for your organization, even if you aren't the nominal leader.]

Quote of the Day: 20 May 2026 #QotD

“Since our brains are wired to make us emotional creatures, your first reaction to an event is always going to be an emotional one.” -Travis Bradberry & Jean Greaves
[But, you don't have to let that be your only reaction. You can have a second reaction, or even a third.]

Quote of the Day: 19 May 2026 #QotD

“However it manifests itself, when the inner voice runs amok and chatter takes the mental microphone, our mind not only torments but paralyzes us. It can also lead us to do things that sabotage us.” -Ethan Kross
[Poor thought hygiene leads to personal suffering that doesn't need to happen. You can get away from it.]

Quote of the Day: 18 May 2026 #QotD

“[J]ust because you can see what’s coming, doesn’t mean you can do anything about it.” -Argosi teaching, Charmcaster
[Unfortunately, foresight sometimes means preparing for the inevitable rather than avoiding a negative result.]

Quote of the Day: 17 May 2026 #QotD

“Opening the windows of heaven through fervent prayer does not require the use of many words or flowery language. Rather, the diligence in prayer which Heavenly Father requires of us is to ‘pour out [our] souls’ in private places and have our hearts ‘drawn out in prayer unto him continually.’” -Henry B. Eyring

Quote of the Day: 16 May 2026 #QotD

“Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you.” -Terry Pratchett
[But the experience along the way is exquisite.]

Quote of the Day: 15 May 2026 #QotD

“[W]hile you can buy your way to growth, you absolutely cannot buy your way to greatness.” -Jim Collins
[Growth may or may not be to the benefit of your organization. Greatness comes from developing the right team.]

Quote of the Day: 14 May 2026 #QotD

“Note: What feels obviously right to you might seem very wrong to everyone else.” -Scott Meyer
[Unless your thoughts are exactly what everyone else thinks (and the likelihood is very low), then you'll have to accept that sometimes you disagree with most other people.]

Quote of the Day: 13 May 2026 #QotD

“You seem sane to me. Perhaps I am as insane as you and am under the same illusion, but that sort of argument gets us nowhere. All humanity could share a common insanity and be immersed in a common illusion while living in a common chaos.” -Janov Pelorat, Foundation’s Edge
[It is hard to dispel a common misconception. That's why it is so important to tell the truth at all times and in all situations.]

Quote of the Day: 12 May 2026 #QotD

“I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.” -Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes
[Your intuition has some things to say. Listen. What are the consequences if you're wrong? They aren't that bad, right?]

Quote of the Day: 11 May 2026 #QotD

“Better a Little Caution than a Great Regret” -Mathon, The Richest Man in Babylon
[Hasty action often leads to regret.]

Quote of the Day: 10 May 2026 #QotD

“Although there is nothing a woman can do that has more far-reaching, eternal impact than to rear her children to walk in righteousness, motherhood and marital status are not the only measures of a woman’s worth.” -M. Russell Ballard
[Happy Mother's Day!]

Quote of the Day: 9 May 2026 #QotD

“I have since come to know that many men always see another’s good fortune as a slight to themselves.” -FitzChivalry Farseer, Assassin’s Apprentice
[Boy, is this true of some people. It is particularly annoying to try to teach my son that this is not true.]

Quote of the Day: 8 May 2026 #QotD

“Every decision we make influences others, and sometimes harms them.… That’s the way of life.” -Nohadon, Wind and Truth
[We cannot help but have an effect on the world. Even a deleterious effect. That is part of life. But it is good to remember that, like ripples on a pond, the effect lessens the further in time and distance from the event that caused it.]

Quote of the Day: 7 May 2026 #QotD

“Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring the earth.” -Marcus Aurelius
[Happy National Day of Prayer.]

Quote of the Day: 6 May 2026 #QotD

“It's comforting to pretend that people more successful than you must be secretly bad people[.]” -@allie__voss
[Envy can be deadly. If not to our bodies, then certainly to our humanity.]

Quote of the Day: 5 May 2026 #QotD

“A given man may make a very bad husband; you cannot mend matters by trying to reverse the roles. He may make a bad male partner in a dance. The cure for that is that men should more diligently attend dancing classes; not that the ballroom should henceforward ignore distinctions of sex and treat all dancers as neuter.” -C. S. Lewis
[Men are men; women are women. It would be foolish to assume that one can fulfill the purposes of the other. There are plenty of instances where it makes little to no difference which one does a given thing, but that doesn't negate the myriad circumstances under which you need either a man or a woman.]

Quote of the Day: 4 May 2026 #QotD

“[N]o history is bad if it is true.” -Miguel de Cervantes
[It is better to know the truth than to delude ourselves into believing something that is false.]

Quote of the Day: 3 May 2026 #QotD

“At a fundamental level, charity certainly includes acts of compassion, kindness, and generosity directed toward others. But at a higher and even holier level, charity is the very essence of the ‘end’ toward which we are enduring—becoming new creatures in Christ.” -David A. Bednar

Quote of the Day: 2 May 2026 #QotD

“For the man of action there is nothing but idealism.” -G. K. Chesterton
[If you're all about getting things done, then you have to have an ethos by which to live. Otherwise, you'll be left to be directed by anything that comes along.]

Quote of the Day: 1 May 2026 #QotD

“Jealousy. Smells like regret only more bitter.” -Reichis, Charmcaster
[Happy May Day. Or, as productive people know it: another work day.]

Quote of the Day: 30 April 2026 #QotD

“The continued vitality of the nation state and of constitutional government depends on the continued vitality of citizenship, which carries with it exclusive allegiance to what the Declaration of Independence calls a ‘separate and equal’ nation.” -Edward J. Erler
[Citizenship can only exist with the existence of a nation state. And some in this nation are working to abolish the very idea of a nation state.]

Quote of the Day: 29 April 2026 #QotD

“It meant I could focus on more important priorities, like not dying. That was one of my favorite hobbies.” -Corin Cadence, Sufficiently Advanced Magic
[I have a lot of hobbies. Or, I have done many hobbies in my life. Not dying is not something I had considered a hobby before. Perhaps it is more of a pursuit for some people than others?]

Quote of the Day: 28 April 2026 #QotD

“Warriors have enemies. Sometimes warriors get hurt. And then their friends even things up.” -Harry Dresden, Skin Game
[I mean, yeah. That's how things work, and why more violence doesn't occur than we do see.]

Quote of the Day: 27 April 2026 #QotD

“If you can't call out obvious evil, then you have no place in the conservative movement.” -Frank Fleming
[Or in polite society, really. If you can't even call out evil, let alone denounce it, they you should remove yourself from the public discourse.]

Quote of the Day: 26 April 2026 #QotD

“The Savior loves all of us and is tenderly calling for you and for me to come home.” -Clark G. Gilbert

Quote of the Day: 24 April 2026 #QotD

“Even great men fail, Kutty. There’s no dishonor in reaching for greatness.” -Jagdish, Graveyard of Demons
[Ambition is not a sin, but pride is. I expect to spend a portion of my life not fully understanding the distinction between the two.]

Quote of the Day: 24 April 2026 #QotD

“There’s always a way to git ahead when you’ve got a mind to!” -Bihu Boyer, Strawberry Girl
[Mindset is so important to achieving success. You have to believe you can, and then you can work toward accomplishing it.]

Quote of the Day: 23 April 2026 #QotD

“The most important self-regulatory skill that top performers use during their work is self-observation.” -Geoff Colvin
[A good coach is nearly essential to making fast and good progress. But your coach will not be with you all the time, and being able to observe yourself will allow you to continue to make progress outside of the coaching environment.]

Quote of the Day: 22 April 2026 #QotD

“Whether we make it or not, the human race has got to keep up its well-earned reputation for ferocity.” -Elihu Nivens, The Puppet Masters
[You have to be capable of intense violence to have the capacity for peaceful behavior. Otherwise, you're merely docile.]

Quote of the Day: 21 April 2026 #QotD

“[S]ure, I laughed at this, but at least I hate the fact that I laughed at this, so I am still a good person[.]” -David Burge
[It's so important to be seen as a good person. But, you should always have an excuse or a justification in your back pocket, just in case.]

Quote of the Day: 20 April 2026 #QotD

“You'll miss the American, who deals sharply but cheats no one, who is tougher than the thugs and cleverer than the tricksters, who says ‘I can do it’ when others shrug, and who respects learning but is suspicious of those claiming to be learned, when the last one dies.” -Kendric Tonn
[An honorable society, as opposed to an honor culture, is always a loss when it is lost. And the loss is irreversible. So, perhaps the prudent course of action would be to preserve such societies in the face of existential crises.]

Quote of the Day: 19 April 2026 #QotD

“I have learned over and over again that—whatever our offering—in the Lord’s economy we always come out ahead.” -Patrick Kearon

Quote of the Day: 18 April 2026 #QotD

“When you have kids, Saturday and Sunday are more of a ‘weakened[.]’” -Henpecked Hal
[True. But kids are worth it in ways that you cannot understand if you don't already get it.]

Quote of the Day: 17 April 2026 #QotD

“Cultural values matter and they are not indistinguishable from one culture to the next.” -Gad Saad
[So, don't adopt the values of inferior cultures, or people from those cultures, unless you are prepared to accept the consequences of those actions.]

Quote of the Day: 16 April 2026 #QotD

“[A]n animal in a zoo or a game park does not live its natural life, any more than a man in a city lives a natural life.” -Michael Crichton
[But who says that a natural life is preferrable. Nature will kill you without a second thought. Sometimes without a first thought, either.]

Quote of the Day: 15 April 2026 #QotD

“This is the day where the IRS demonstrates it's got what it takes to take what you got.” -Aaron of The Shekel
[It's tax day. Just so we all know.]

Quote of the Day: 14 April 2026 #QotD

“Cohesion happens not when members of a group are smarter but when they are lit up by clear, steady signals of safe connection.” -Daniel Coyle
[Human connections are critical to healthy organizations and individuals. You cannot live without interactions with other people.]

Quote of the Day: 13 April 2026 #QotD

“If we can’t put an end to the violence within us, there is no hope for putting an end to the violence without.” -Yusuf al-Falah, The Anatomy of Peace
[Seeking to impose order from the outside in is almost doomed to fail. You have to focus on the things within your power before you can hope to influence those things that you share power with others over, let alone those things that you have no intrinsic power over.]

Quote of the Day: 12 April 2026 #QotD

“The atoning love of Jesus Christ can be found in the most difficult situations, but we all constantly need the atoning grace of our Savior.” -Neil L. Andersen

Quote of the Day: 11 April 2026 #QotD

“Although we generally associate wisdom with advanced age, because the longer you live the more uncertainty you will have experienced and learned from, research indicates that you can teach people how to think wisely regardless of their age—through gaining distance.” -Ethan Kross
[Anything that can approximate wisdom is worth giving a go. I'd really like to not have to learn everything from my own mistakes.]

Quote of the Day: 10 April 2026 #QotD

“Stop being so scared about yesterday—it only makes you forget to appreciate today.” -Ferius Parfax, Charmcaster
[There is something to be said for living in the moment. Enjoying the time you have is far more pleasant than agonizing over the past or things you cannot change.]

Quote of the Day: 9 April 2026 #QotD

“But this is today. It’s soon going to be tomorrow and things can change.” -Mrs. Eunice Proust, The Shepherd’s Crown
[Change is always in the air. Is that a warning or an encouragement? Who knows? But change will happen.]

Quote of the Day: 8 April 2026 #QotD

“Letting the wrong people hang around is unfair to all the right people, as they inevitably find themselves compensating for the inadequacies of the wrong people. Worse, it can drive away the best people. Strong performers are intrinsically motivated by performance, and when they see their efforts impeded by carrying extra weight, they eventually become frustrated.” -Jim Collins
[Getting your organization right, and staffed by the right people, is the most important work a leader engages in. And you have to jettison those who are a drag on the productivity to the rest of the team.]

Quote of the Day: 7 April 2026 #QotD

“It was memorable. That doesn’t mean I liked it.” -Missy, Basic Instructions
[Memorability and likability are not opposites or synonymous. But they aren't exactly orthogonal either.]

Quote of the Day: 6 April 2026 #QotD

“Anyone who displays a capacity for double-dealing must forever be suspected of being capable of displaying it again.” -Harla Branno, Foundation’s Edge

[Trust is hard to restore once it has been lost. In some cases it is not possible to restore that trust. We should view any public official who has broken confidence in a very skeptical light indeed.]

Quote of the Day: 5 April 2026 #QotD

“Jesus Christ’s atoning sacrifice and resurrection are the ultimate evidence of God’s love.” -Dallin H. Oaks
[Happy Easter!]

Quote of the Day: 4 April 2026 #QotD

“Years from now, when I’m successful and happy, … and he’s in prison … I hope I’m not too mature to gloat.” -Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes
[It's always important to keep in mind what you have to gloat over. Perspective is a powerful motivational tool to maintain focus.]

Quote of the Day: 3 April 2026 #QotD

“We’ve become so used to the idea that the only reward for getting better is moving toward higher income and increased responsibilities that we forget that the fruits of pursuing quality can also be harvested in the form of a more sustainable lifestyle.” -Cal Newport
[Take some stock of where you are and what you'd like for your life. Maybe you don't have to pursue what others would deem 'success' if you already have what you want.]

Quote of the Day: 2 April 2026 #QotD

“You’ve learned to guard your thoughts so well, you’re almost afraid to let yourself know what they are.” -Chade, Assassin’s Apprentice
[You need to know your own mind. You simply can't operate in the world if you don't.]