Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

You may never know when things start to go bad, but when things are worse you know it.

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

Frustration is the mother of risk.

Leaders are people we as followers want to regard with awe as the fullest flowering of our own possibilities.

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.