1.       Humility is important and mine needs to multiply

2.       Being humble really does help with your view of the world

3.       Being nice, while it makes you feel good, does not always have a reward

4.       The things that reward are often the things that have no reward

5.       Life seems to be stable, but the stability is actually an illusion which we’re all trying to maintain

6.       Life is about change. It doesn’t have to be, but it is.

7.       What you have can go. What can go, you mostly can’t get back

8.       Hope is not a strategy. Neither is inaction

9.       Inaction only makes things harder

10.   Cut things when they are not working

11.   Take advantage of things when they are working

12.   Giving love is better than being loved

13.   Your children reward you a 100 fold for every tiny thing that you do for them

14.   Good to Great just plain makes sense

15.   I would rather be great at what I do with my life than just good

16.   Sometimes just good enough really isn’t just good enough

17.   Sometimes good enough is good enough

18.   There needs to be more than just consumption, there needs to be creation and sharing

19.   Barney was right all along, Sharing is Caring

20.   Every time I find an answer, I find more questions, to which I have no answers

21.   Out there, there are some really horrible people who are mostly outnumbered by the average ones and in between, we find human-being-gems

22.   I am yet to find what I truly want to do

23.   Apple really does make kick ass stuff

24.   Mostly it’s just business, nothing personal

25.   Act quickly, change your mind later, and then act quickly again

26.   Constructive argument and debate is necessary for an excellent outcome

27.   More often than not it’s not about you and your contribution to something, it’s about the outcome and how it affects others

28.   Don’t mix business with pleasure

29.   A great friend is worth their weight in gold when times are tough

30.   Children’s take on things is often more prescient than ours

31.   Wikipedia, whilst sometimes suspect in the accuracy of content, brings value from structure and participation

32.   I really do have an eclectic taste in music and not everyone will love Alva Noto, no matter how much I want them to appreciate the sound scapes

33.   There is always something for me to learn from every situation, about myself, others and/or the situation

34.   There are many truths, mine, yours, and theirs

35.   Maintaining your house, like relationships, is a necessary thing to do, and gratifying too

36.   Sometimes sorry might not be enough, but mostly it is

37.   The world abounds with opportunities, but only open eyes can see them

38.   There are many things that are broken, but that’s not what it’s about, it’s about fixing them

39.   Little can be as gratifying as giving to those who have nothing and helping them get their own

40.   Truisms are truisms for a reason

41.   Murphy is a bitch, but can be demoted in importance with a little forethought, planning and ignorance of his ways

42.   That even though the clouds may be dark, there is still light and love and really, that’s a great start to just about everything

43.   That I’d prefer not to have this many realisms thrown at me in one year