Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

There are no rules, but you break them at your peril.

Good storytelling is harder than it sounds, but the easy part is that everyone has the ability to do it. ...Tap into it.

With a purposeful story, you can change a "wanna be" to a "gonna be" to a "be".

Welcome it as part of a process... you just can't avoid it... if you go to bat enough times, you are going to strike out; and you will do it cataclysmically; and you know success and failure are just millimeters apart.

A gun can be dangerous. But a gun can protect you, you can hunt for food with it - you know, the tool itself is a tool. The intention of the party using the tool is a part of the process, right? You know: the knife cuts the steak, stabs the person, saves somebody from danger, cuts somebody out of a car.

Stories aren't the icing on the cake; they are the cake!