When you wake up every day, you have two choices. You can either be positive or negative; an optimist or a pessimist. I choose to be an optimist. It's all a matter of perspective.

If you wish others to believe in you, you must first convince them that you believe in them.

You're a lot better off being scared than being bored.

Direct your energy toward achieving a goal, and tackle the problems with an emphasis on edging closer to a successful result.

Make the second effort your second nature.

Even when change is elective, it will disorient you. You may go through anxiety. You will miss aspects of your former life. It doesn't matter. The trick is to know in advance of making any big change that you're going to be thrown off your feet by it. So you prepare for this inevitable disorientation and steady yourself to get through it. Then you take the challenge, make the change, and achieve your dream.

A student of life considers the world a classroom.