It's not about how much work you're doing. It's about what work you're doing and how you're doing the work.

Even if you overcome a tremendous challenge and feel the personal victory, it's simply not powerful enough. It may activate your left brain, which says, 'I have achieved,' but it will not activate your more social right brain, which desperately desires to say, 'Look, Ma, I did it!

It's that engagement of learning that makes us feel alive.

Do yourself and your family a favor: Decide right now that you will write a self-help book someday. I'm serious. A self-help book is a great way to capture what you think makes a good person, a good life and a good world. It's also a "forever document" that you can pass down to future generations. We need more people sharing positive messages and books with the world. Why not be one of those people?

A high performer is someone who says, 'I want to be the best at what I'm doing.'

At the end of our lives we all ask, did i live? Did i love? Did i matter?

A lot of people have the ambition, but they never ask themselves, Do I really believe I can do this?