Remind yourself: you are not your thoughts or feelings

Paul Ryan has become a doormat...And he's become this little person who is following Romney around.

Often, you'll fail. But, as my mother also taught me, failure isn't the opposite of success - it's a stepping stone to success.

The most effective means for restoring the integrity of our electoral process, and repairing the public's tattered faith in its elected representatives, is through the full public financing of political campigns. It's the mother of all reforms: the one reform that makes all other reforms possible. After all, he who pays the piper calls the tune. If someone's going to own the politicians, it might as well be the American people.

Those who have matured spiritually, now put service to others at the center of their quest and of their lives.

That's what I try to do as a writer and as the editor of HuffPost: cover important stories in an obsessive way that enables them to break through the din of our multimedia universe.

Any time we have projects that we haven't begun or completed, they drain energy.