Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.

Effective negotiators have a style that those whom they are trying to influence, relate to and admire.

If you're trying to get out of debt, you have to be willing to treat everything as expendable.

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren't my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

It's so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

There is nothing wrong with your marriage if you're dealing with bills and kids and the broken garbage disposal and in-laws and work demands. That's a normal marriage.

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.