These are ideas I’ve come up with over the years that I find myself coming back to again and again (just ask my students!):

 

• Any book worth reading once is worth reading more than once.

 

• It’s easier to keep up than it is to catch up.

 

• Every now and then stop, turn, and look to see where you’ve been.

  (I first discovered this while taking pictures on a vacation to the Pacific Northwest.  The view behind you is very often very different–and just as striking–from a different angle.  Personal retreats are my favorite way of putting this into practice on a daily basis.)

 

• Good enough is never good enough.

  (Well, usually–but it doesn’t sound as pithy if you say “usually.”)