We tell children what they should do when they grow up so we can impress the people next door.

So take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.

Every event has a purpose and every setback a lesson. Failure is essential to personal expansion. It brings inner growth and a whole host of psychic rewards. Never regret your past. Rather embrace it as the teacher it is.

Small daily improvments over time create stuning results

Want more credit for all you do and who you are? Be the one who gives credit to others.

Be the Mick Jagger of the mailroom, the Warren Buffet of bookkeeping and the Bono of stapler selling.

And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we actually come to believe they are true.