1. SQL Saturday #410, Chattanooga, TN Dave Mattingly

2. THE SPEAKER I never did a day’s work in my life. It was all fun. (Thomas Edison)

3. SQL SATURDAY #403 Louisville, Kentucky  August 22, 2015  Speaker selection complete  Pre-cons to be announced soon Kentucky makes bourbon, fried chicken, and baseball bats. Basically, if it can kill you, we make it. (Mark Klein)

4. TECHFEST LOUISVILLE www.techfestlou.com Who  techies, designers, makers, coders, analysts, hackers, leaders, experts Why  blend business with technology and cross- pollinate communities Louisville, Kentucky  August 20-21, 2015 Four Tracks:  healthcare  internet of things  leadership  emerging tech

5. BRAIN Learn Mentor New Ideas I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells. (Dr. Seuss)

6. Be careful about reading health books. You might die of a misprint. (Mark Twain) EYES Read Perspective Aim/Goal/Plan

7. EARS Play Dumb Learn People Seek Feedback You cannot truly listen to someone else and do anything else at the same time. (M. Scott Peck)

8. MOUTH Present/Speak/Teach No Gossip/Swearing Train Successor Make sure you finish speaking before your audience has stopped listening. (Dorothy Sarnoff)

9. FACE Smile Be Popular Office Party Sherlock said, “Arm yourself, there’s an evil hand afoot ahead!” (Bulwer-Lytton 2010 runner-up, Dennis Pearce)

10. SHOULDERS Ask for Responsibility Carry Your Work, Not Chips Thaw Your Cold Shoulder Keeping your shoulder to the wheel, nose to the grindstone, ear to the ground, and eye on the ball makes it hard to work.

11. ELBOWS Do a Good Job Do More than Job Do What Needs Doing Doing what must be done might not make you happy, but it will make you great. (George Bernard Shaw)

12. WRIST Respect Time Give Yourself Deadlines Understand Priorities We have time so everything doesn’t happen all at once. We have space so it doesn’t all happen to you.

13. HANDS Handshake Share Credit Help Colleagues Succeed How many people here have telekinetic powers? Raise my hand. (Emo Philips)

14. FINGERS Write / Blog / Whitepaper Podcast / Vidcast Interview When I was kidnapped, they cut off my finger and sent it. My father said he wanted more proof. (Rodney Dangerfield)

15. FINGERPRINTS Brand Yourself Promo Yourself Be Yourself I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific. (Lily Tomlin)

16. HEART Thank Encourage Find Passion In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

17. GUTS Comfort Zone Bad News Create Job Under the bludgeoning of chance, my head is bloodied but unbowed. (Invictus, William Ernest Henley)

18. BOTTOM Admit Mistakes Get Rid of the Bad Flush Sometimes I feel like the overworked butcher who backed into the meat slicer and got a little behind in his work.

19. FEET Travel Events Network Everywhere is walking distance, if you have the time. (Steven Wright)

20. SCALE Measure Track Accountability As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17)

21. BODY Clothing Hygiene Exercise Check-Up You cannot climb the ladder of success in the costume of failure. (Zig Ziglar)

22. SPIRIT Family Play / Relax Church Preacher: “We were put here to help others.” Kid: “What were the others put here for?”

23. SUMMARY Brain Eyes Ears Mouth Face Shoulders Elbows Wrist Hands Fingers Fingerprint Heart Gut Bottom Feet Scale Body Spirit Let me ’splain. No, there is too much. Let me sum up. (Inigo Montoya)

24. RESOURCES If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn’t be called research. (Albert Einstein)

25. QUESTIONS Judge a man by his questions, not by his answers. (Voltaire)

26. CONTACT dave@blackwyrm.com fb.me/dave.mattingly.3 linkedin.com/in/blackwyrm @blackwyrm gplus.to/blackwyrm 502-608-0420 Carpe D.M. Seize the Dave.