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title: "Executive Summary: Irving W. Washington III, CAE"
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#### My three goals for 2015

1. Get active with ASAE’s Small Staff Association Committee
2. Win the war on managing email
3. Create my personal website

#### On my desk right now

Tchotchkes from all my conference travel

Associations Now

Financial statements and contracts

Certificate of completion for NTL Institute’s High-Impact Relationships course

#### Who I’m following on Twitter

[@ramit (opens in a new tab)](https://twitter.com/ramit)
 (Ramit Sethi), [@tferriss (opens in a new tab)](https://twitter.com/tferriss)
 (Tim Ferriss), [@energy_project (opens in a new tab)](https://twitter.com/energy_project)

#### My media mix

[Daily Beast (opens in a new tab)](http://www.thedailybeast.com/)
, Flipboard, Pandora, [Entrepreneur (opens in a new tab)](http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/index.html)
 magazine

#### My favorite blogs

[15Five (opens in a new tab)](http://blog.15five.com/)
, [Quartz Daily Brief (opens in a new tab)](http://qz.com/re/daily-brief/)
, [Richard Prince’s Journal-isms (opens in a new tab)](http://mije.org/richardprince)

#### What I do when I’m not at work

Crossfit and catch the latest new movie

#### If I weren’t doing this, I’d …

… produce the Oscars.

(Drake Sorey)

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