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This page contains the essential resources that I have found useful in my personal and professional life. It covers everything I read, audios I listen to, events I attend, places where I teach, links I go to, videos I watch, and a few others things I like to share.

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Our life is a journey, and when we stop moving, things go wrong.

Pope Francis
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The aim of leadership is not merely to find and record failures in men, but to remove the causes of failure.

W. Edwards Deming
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Choose gratitude. Find something to give thanks for, and then say so. Out loud. The more you do, the more your life begins to overflow.

Chris Tiegreen
Experience God's Presence (Tyndale House Publishers, 2011)
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Leadership isn’t about having the right answers, it’s about having the right questions.

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The things we complain about are the things we should be changing.

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Education does not mean teaching people to know what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave.

John Ruskin
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Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Robert Browning
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Get mad, then get over it.

Always have control of yourself.

Colin Powell
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