Procrastination is your body telling you you need to back off a bit and think more about what you are doing.

Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.

Reading is the best return on investment. You have to live your entire life in order to know one life. But with reading you can know 1000s of people's lives for almost no cost. What a great return!

If you try to get 1% better each day at your health, at your relationships and the way you treat people, at your creativity, and at turning despair into gratitude, then that 1% compounds into an amazing person. Do that 1%. Take one action. Even if the actions is for one minute. The 1/1/1 strategy.

If two people believe in the same story, they might be thousands of miles apart and total strangers, but they still have a sense they can trust each other.

I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

Your competition is not other people but the time you kill, the ill will you create, the knowledge you neglect to learn, the connections you fail to build, the health you sacrifice along the path, your inability to generate ideas, the people around you who don’t support and love your efforts, and whatever god you curse for your bad luck.