People get trapped into thinking about just one way of doing things.

It is exciting to kind of figure things out in yourself and then use other people to help you figure things out so you can really reach your potential.

I've been lucky to have lots and lots of mentors. I think that is incredibly important in anyone's life to encourage and inspire them, let them understand that their own potential is a reality that they can strive for.

Maybe people, maybe the world writes things off as impossible a little too quickly, when they really aren't - when they just haven't reached out and figured out how to utilize their resources to the fullest degree or created pioneering systems in their lives.

I decided to become a teacher because I thought it would be a great career where I could wear different hats. You're an academic one moment, and you're a psychologist the next moment, an athlete the next moment... when you are out on the playground or coaching...so it enables you to play different roles.

People have the inner resources to become anything they want to be. Challenge just becomes the vehicle for tapping into those inner resources.

I think that it is everyone's obligation they owe to themselves and to their lives to figure out their own way up their own mountain.