What I’ve learned most clearly from blogs is that the majority of them write about the problems from the outside for a reason—because they are missing the abilities that allow people to move to the inside.

Great times are great softeners

When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?

No one will argue that writing is an easy profession. Getting someone to pay you for your words isn’t easy. But there are strategies you can use to simplify the process and transform what you can produce.

We decide what we will make of each and every situation. We decide whether we’ll break or whether we’ll resist.

What is known can't jerk us around unwittingly. Before anything can be resolved, the implicit must be made into the explicit.

Problems are rarely as bad as we think-or rather, they are precisely as bad as we think.