All your life you compare and contrast, explore and search. But knowing yourself well is, well, elusive.

People who let events and circumstances dictate their lives are living reactively. That means that they don't act on life, they only react to it.

I'm a lucky guy. No question.

When you have a sense of your own identity and a vision of where you want to go in your life, you then have the basis for reaching out to the world and going after your dreams for a better life.

To know yourself is the first and most important step in pursuing your dreams and goals.

To get where we want to go in life, we have to keep at it. We have to create a vision, make choices based on what moves us most swiftly toward our goals, and go after them with determination and single-mindedness.

I'm pretty grounded on my own passion - writing books, you know, doing programs, speaking around the country. And I love what I do.