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Looking to 2024

I’m going to try posting on LinkedIn more this year. And keep posting on

2024 resolutions*

  • Learn more. Get better at what I do.
  • Write more, and write more consistently on realcentralva.com, realcrozetva.com, and continue to build the number and quality of readers of Jim’s Note (no longer available), the place where I write the best stuff I write for my clients — past, present, and hopefully future.
  • Listen more. To my wife, my kids, my partners, and my clients.
  • Read more.
  • Slow down. Where appropriate.
  • Speed up. Where appropriate.
  • Multitask less.
  • Continue to ride. 🙂

*Resolutions are trivial (to me). Goals however, daily, weekly, yearly, and beyond, are more relevant to my life, business, existence.


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