To succeed in life, we must stay within our strength zone but continually move outside our comfort zone.

Someone once defined hard work as the accumulation of the easy things you didn't do when you should have.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean giving up familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, and relationships that have lost their meaning.

If you keep your mind active, regularly take on mental challenges, and continually think about the right things, you will develop the disciplined thinking that will help you with whatever you endeavor to do.

If the church is going to make a difference, it will need to go through the "big give-up" stage. Churches will need to quit being selfish and become relevant.

True success is obeying God.

Understanding people certainly impacts your ability to communicate with others.