Change, even if unwelcome, forces us to reevaluate what our best options are. Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad.

Our expectations determine how we respond. Be careful what you expect.

Unfounded fears about your competence and abilities can cripple your unique talents and gifts, which are waiting to be released.

Passion is more developed than discovered.

Find ways to embrace the things that make you unique, and you'll unlock the ways you can make a difference in the world.

How sad that we often diminish our best gifts by struggling valiantly to develop in someone else's area of ability. It is better to focus on your uniqueness and do that with excellence than to end up with mediocrity in several areas.

In one line of his poem he said good fences make good neighbors. I'd like to think that Alaska and British Columbia working together can prove that we can be pretty darned good neighbors without fences.