Buying phosphate-free soap allows you to say, 'My detergent doesn't have the harsh chemicals others do.' The question is, how are you washing with it? The very worst thing for the Earth about detergent is that we heat water to use it.

We should spend less time ranking children and more time helping them to identify their natural competencies and gifts, and cultivate those.

What really matters for success, character, happiness and life long achievements is a definite set of emotional skills - your EQ - not just purely cognitive abilities that are measured by conventional IQ tests.

The basic premise that children must learn about emotions is that all feelings are okay to have; however, only some reactions are okay.

The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.

Threats to our standing in the eyes of others are remarkably potent biologically, almost as powerful as those to our very survival.

One way to boost our will power and focus is to manage our distractions instead of letting them manage us.