When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you.

Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why.

When someone asks for your time, and you put your phone away to talk to them... that's leadership.

We live in times of high stress. Messages that are simple, messages that are inspiring, messages that are life-affirming, are a welcome break from our real lives.

When we can communicate from the inside out, we're talking directly to the part of the brain that controls behavior, and then we allow people to rationalize it with the tangible things we say and do. This is where gut decisions come from.

Optimism is the ability to focus on where we're going, not where we're coming from.

My sister made certain choices about the life she wanted. Those choices include a steady job, a husband and children. But balance and stability come at a cost. It is harder for her to be spontaneous. It is harder to just up and leave.