When each of these three elements of vision-concern for excellence, for people and for the wider environment-are present, business is transformed from a tool for making profits into a creative, humane experiment for improving life.

Pleasure is an important component of the quality of life, but by itself it does not bring happiness. Pleasure helps to maintain order, but by itself cannot create a new order in consciousness.

As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.

If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average.

Unless a person knows how to give order to her thoughts, attention will be attracted to whatever is most problematic at the moment.

Participate as fully as possibly in the world around you.

A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.