What you do with your billable time determines your current income, but what you do with your non-billable time determines your future.

Left untended, knowledge and skill, like all assets, depreciate in value surprisingly quickly.

When did you feel most fulfilled? When did you impress yourself, or otherwise feel most proud of yourself?

You cannot and should not try to please everyone. Make sure that the right people like you, and it will be expected that others will not. That's how the world works.

Focus on being the best you can at what you want to do.

What do I have to do to earn and deserve the key relationships that are going to get me where I want to go?

Whether or not your values are operational is crucially determined by whether or not there are consequences for noncompliance.