The goal has never been to always succeed. The goal is to be allowed to keep initiating.

All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.

It's uncomfortable to resist the urge to settle.

The resistance is the voice in your head telling you to use bullets in your PowerPoint slides...It’s the voice that tells you to leave controversial ideas out of the paper you’re writing, because the teacher won’t like them. The resistance pushes relentlessly for you to fit in.

How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading.

It's more important that you be passionate about what you do all day than it is to be passionate about the product that is being sold.

The sooner we realize that the world has changed, the sooner we can accept it and make something of what we've got. Whining isn't a scalable solution.