A talk I might give one day

As my kids have grown older, or maybe as I have just grown older, I wanted to collect some of the things I have found useful over the years.

​Some things people were kind enough to share, more often I had to learn the hard way.

Each of these things could be expanded upon, and maybe I will one day.

Hope you enjoy.
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1. ​The world owes you nothing.
2. Things are not good or bad they just are
3. This too shall pass
4. Decide what is important, what your morals will be and defend them.
5. You can have anything you want in life just not everything
6. In god we trust all others bring data
7. When you get new information form new opinions – or at least double check you're existing
8. Fairplay is for board games and sports.
9. Once you understand that you and you alone or responsible for where you find yourself you can move on.
10. Life is more about how you respond to things than what happens to you.
11. If you want better answers , ask better questions.
12. Solve other people’s problems whenever you can.
    • Especially for your boss
13. Write down goals
    1. Put a date on them
14. Get up a little earlier than you should
15. Be on time
16. Read books about people you admire (audible or podcasts count)
17. Say yes to everything early in your career
18. Volunteer for the things that people don’t/can’t do
19. Do stuff that makes you uncomfortable
20. Have goals outside of work
21. Invest in yourself
22. Set a time once a year for your boss and decide to advocate for yourself. (This is a different time of year than their review)
23. Take questions to an interview
    1. What do people that are already successful in this role do?
    2. A year from now how will you decide that I have been successfully (what will it look like)
    3. If I am successful here, what can I expect from the company?
    4. If I am here for five years where can I go?
    5. What is your biggest problem
24. Go to conferences about your industry.
25. Network outside of your company.
26. Volunteer for industry events
27. Be thoughtful of others - but don’t worry what they think, because people are rarely thinking of you, they are typically thinking of themselves.
28. Make the work the point.
29. Have many interests but pick a thing and get really really good at it.
30. If you curse, know your audience.
31. Your network determines your net worth.
32. Confidence and Ego are different things – the main difference is confidence is based on evidence

Update October 2018 - I did end up giving that talk, here is the deck. Enjoy.

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