It is futile to put personality ahead of character, to try to improve relationships with others before improving ourselves.

Develop all four intelligences. PQ (physical intelligence) which represents 70 trillion cells that fight disease and digest your breakfast. IQ (intellectual intelligence) EQ (emotional intelligence) the sensing and wisdom of the heart - - and SQ (spiritual intelligence) having to do with meaning, purpose and integrity around your selected value system and your believed source. When combined, they change the world for good.

In the absence of wake-up calls, many of us never really confront the critical issues of life.

The key is taking responsibility and initiative, deciding what your life is about and prioritizing your life around the most important things.

The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.

Role modeling is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's lives.

The way we see the problem is the problem.