Set out to do three or four things this year with gusto and excellence, rather than doing a dozen things just sufficiently. Trust me on this.

When you put your preferences on the altar of your life and say: THIS. THIS is what compels me. The real you emerges.

What if desire wasn't an urge to be tamed, but a beacon of truth to be followed?

Feel free to change. When you discover something true about yourself, put it in action regardless of who you were yesterday.

The surest sign that you're working with the life-affirming kind of discipline, rather than the spirit-depressing kind, is that you don't complain very much about doing what it takes.

But what if we took it one step further and made an effort to actually transform our pain into something beautiful? What if we went full out and made an effort to transform other people’s pain into something beautiful?

You don’t need to be burned out to go on hiatus.