Listen to your conscience regarding something that you simply know you should do, then start small on it - make a promise and keep it. Then move forward and make a little larger promise and keep it. Eventually you'll discover that your sense of honor will become greater than your moods, and that will give you a level of confidence and excitement that you can move to other areas where you feel you need to make improvements or give service.

Retire from your job but never from meaningful projects. If you want to live a long life, you need eustress, that is, a deep sense of meaning and of contribution to worthy projects and causes, particularly, your intergenerational family.

When you make a commitment to yourself, do so with the clear understanding that you're pledging your integrity.

Whether you're on a sports team, in an office or a member of a family, if you can't trust one another there's going to be trouble.

You can buy a person's hands but you can't buy his heart. His heart is where his enthusiasm, his loyalty is.

Principles are the territory. Values are maps.

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