Shave, shower, cut your hair, and dress nice for Date Night even if you’re not going out.

Asking good questions and thinking out loud with other smart people leads to better answers.

Make the layup when you get fouled, sprint the last 100 yards, and press collate and staple when you copy.

No one is successful alone.

Getting started is half finished (and now you know it’s not as bad as you imagined).

It’s better to bow out at the start than to go and have it get way too late

Telling stories and playing games generates a lot of fun and laughter…and hopefully memories.

Cleaning and doing projects builds a lot of relationship points.

Better to request what seemed an unnecessary phone call (which did have value) than to let a misunderstanding build into crisis.

Delivering on a promise is worth the cost of lost sleep.

Given the surgeon found damage to both his rotator cuff and his labrum, he’d been living with a lot of pain for a long time.

If you want a ton of fast response, list your Craigslist items under “free”.

One of the best things you can do for someone is to do something for their kids.

Reading aloud to the kids is a big deal.

Enjoying cheddar cheese and red wine in bed while a watching an Ion Christmas movie (with a predictably happy ending) makes for a nice date.

Wait to be asked before you advise friends or family on relationships.

A dress shirt and dark slacks – preferably with a sport coat- is the right attire for business travel..

The leader’s primary job is to change thinking.

Having a generous outlook means buying what you need even when it seems expensive.

The work you skipped to run a 5K with your son, attend a baptism, hang out with your team and their spouses, bake cupcakes, make tacos, and celebrate two birthdays, can be made up later.