Code of Honour

• Convictions go on the scoreboard. Arrests don’t.
• Start the day with what counts, not with what shouts.
• A head can do one thing at a time. Don’t pretend it can do two.
• Every task has four fates: do it, cross it off, hand it over, put it off.
• Wrap a no as a gift and nobody counts it as a no.
• Busy isn’t working. Riina was very busy.
• Habit saves your strength and gives away your schedule.
• Don’t sit at the same table every evening while the town is full of people you stand in the way of.
• A goal runs out. Who you are goes to work every day.
• What you look at in the morning is what you shoot at by evening.
• To decide is to cut.
• First the point, then the facts, then the options, then the choice.
• Keep asking why until you reach the driver who doesn’t know the route.
• A task with no next step has no legs.
• Whatever you write down, someone else will read one day.
• The harder you believe, the harder you look for proof against.
• “I knew it” is a comfort, not a lesson.
• Play out the worst case, take your precautions, then switch it off.
• Work grows to fill the deadline. No deadline, and it grows for ever.
• Rest is part of the job, not truancy from it.
• Boredom is as dangerous as fatigue. Just quieter.
• Home is a safe harbour, not an office.
• Look for what was up to you. The culprits will be found without your help.
• Experience that teaches you nothing is just time served.
• Respect your partner, but don’t marry the deal.