Success is doing fifty small things well.
Failure is doing fifty small things poorly.
Chrysler which should have married Mitsubishi, now begs Fiat for the courtesy of purchase.
Circuit City is kaput.
Fifty small things done poorly.
We are told that group exercises are the way to go and so there are more and more of them.
Yet it is known that both the giraffe and the zebra were committee products.
Faberge designed his own eggs for the Czar and Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel without the benefit of a second opinion. Most people have never seen an actual Ferrari much less driven one yet a unique creation of one visionary in 1947 remains the standard by which gran turisimo is indeed grand. So, what have you accomplished? Did you set some specific goals for the semester? Are you progressing toward a measurable goal in your learning? Have you set a Vision, Mission, Outcome for your self? Indeed we worked on just that for the College of Business his past friday.
Only you can advance you, none of us can do that for you.
And so, what did you write this semester? Great papers or just good enough? Did you nail down Chicago Style referencing? Did you use the same book report for all your classes? Did you read the blog, hit the hyperlinks, look up those obscure references from class, just wondered.
Your life is a canvas, you are the painting.
As Omar Kayyham observed 'the writing hand, having writ, moves on.'
Professor Elam 
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