I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacation with better care than they do their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change

Don't take the casual approach to life. Casualness leads to casualties.

It's easy to let life deteriorate into making a living instead of making a life. It's not the hours you put in, but what you out into the hours that count. Learn to express rather than impress. Expressing evokes a me too attitude while impressing evokes a so what attitude.

The question is not whether the formula for success will work, but rather whether the person will work the formula.

Use your past as one of your mentors.

And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes in their life. If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life-and it all begins with your very own power of choice.

Learn how to separate the majors and the minors. A lot of people don't do well simply because they major in minor things.