Difficult times disrupt your conventional ways of thinking and push you to forge better habits of thought, performance and being.

Great achievement often happens when our backs are up against the wall. Pressure can actually enhance your performance.

The first move of leadership is learning to think for yourself.

We can Fire a missile across the world with pinpoint accuracy, but we trouble keeping a date with our children to go to the library.

Gandhi said 'One cannot do right in one area of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in another; Life is one indivisible whole.' This point of wisdom is profound. A commitment to excellence is not just reserved for a few select areas of your life - it must be reflected in everything you do. Your diet must reflect your commitment to excellence. Your physique must reflect your commitment to excellence. Your personal habits must reflect your commitment to excellence and your thoughts must reflect a commitment to excellence.

Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.

The beautiful thing about setbacks is they introduce us to our strengths.