It's much easier to spend a lot of time making your microphone louder than it is working on making your message more compelling.

If you wait until you are ready, it is almost certainly too late.

Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you--the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.

It's entirely possible that there won't be a standing ovation at the end of your journey. That's okay. At least you lived.

Discomfort brings engagement and change. Discomfort means you're doing something that others were unlikely to do, because they're hiding out in the comfortable zone. When your uncomfortable actions lead to success, the organization rewards you and brings you back for more.

My problem with the search for the badge of real is that it trades your goals and your happiness for someone else's.

No more than six words on a slide. Ever. There is no presentation so complex that this rule needs to be broken.