Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.

Enjoyment is an incredible energizer to the human spirit.

Many times we ask people to march outwardly, when we haven't yet spent the needed time inwardly.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.

Most people would rather change their circumstances to improve their lives when instead they need to change themselves to improve their circumstances. They put in just enough effort to distance themselves from their problems without ever trying to go after the root, which can often be found in themselves. Because they don't try to change the source of their problems, their problems keep coming back at them.

You either spend your life preparing or you spend your life repairing.

We have many years to eat and sleep, but how many years do we have to make a difference in the lives of others? That's the highest calling any of us can have: Living our life so as to intentionally add value to others. But to do this, we have to make ourselves more valuable. We have to keep learning, growing, developing as leaders and taking responsibility for being the change we want to see in the world.