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

In a litigation-happy society, clear agreements often prevent small disagreements from becoming big ones.

If you have no destination, you'll never get there.

Most fears of rejection rest on the desire for approval from other people. Don't base your self-esteem on their opinions.

Laugh often. Starting your day with a good laugh, or at least a big smile, is as beneficial to your health as it is to your mood. Scientific studies at Northwestern University and Fordham University concluded that laughter benefits the heart, lungs, stomach and other organs. It relaxes tensions, changes attitude, and increases the body's natural painkillers. And it has no harmful side effects.

It isn't the quality of the ideas you have that will determine whether you make a success of them, it's the qualities you bring to those ideas.

Life is series of opportunities. The often neglected fact of life is that opportunities multiply as you take advantage of them.