Research indicates that the desire to achieve the skills associated with success is more highly correlated with achievement than the desire for success itself.

Look to the present. The great disease of 'I will be happy when ...' is sweeping the world. You know the symptoms. You start thinking: I'll be happy when I get that ... BMW ... promotion ... status ... money. The only way to cure the disease is to find happiness and meaning now.

After living with their dysfunctional behavior for so many years, people become invested in defending their dysfunctions rather than changing them.

Never confuse acquiring degrees with wisdom.

To help others develop, start with yourself! When the boss acts like a little god and tells everyone else they need to improve, that behavior can be copied at every level of management. Every level then points out how the level below it needs to change. The end result: No one gets much better.

Change is not a one-way street- it involves two parties: the person who is changing and the people who notice it.

It is a whole lot easier to see our problems in others than it is to see them in ourselves.