Along those lines...

Things I learned at my two day workshop on Leadership & Professionalism:

1. It's important as a speaker not to keep saying the same phrase over and over. Our professor added the phrase 'along those lines' to almost every point he was making.

2. Everything is 'very very important'. The things that are not 'very very important' are 'extremely extremely important'. And that's not hyperbolic at all. It's very very extremely extremely not an over exaggeration in anyway.

3. Chances are very good that the leaders we were using as examples never sat in a workshop like that teaching them how to be leaders. I'm going to guess they were to busy being leaders to learn how to be great leaders. Along those lines...

4. If you plan to drink three coffees to make up for getting up at 5:45 on a Saturday, it's best to sit near the door and not on the other side of the room.

5. Best quote of the day: 'If everyone was perfect, there wouldn't be erasers on pencils.'

6. It pays to be the only one in the room who can pronounce 'Heraclitus'.

7. A lot can be conveyed silently when two virtual strangers somehow stumble upon the topic of infertility and realize we've both walked a road we wished we hadn't. And two people have never made a more swift topic change. Ever.

8. You know... along those lines.