In our personal lives, if we do not develop our own self-awareness and become responsible for first creations, we empower other people and circumstances to shape our lives by default.

None of us see the world as it is but as we are, as our frames of reference, or maps, define the territory.

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

Our greatest joy and our greatest pain comes in our relationships with others.

Inspire (from the Latin inspirare) means to breathe life into another.

Writing is another powerful way to sharpen the mental saw. Keeping a journal of our thoughts, experiences, insights, and learnings promotes mental clarity, exactness, and context.

Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not to. We're talking about three to six hours a week - or a minimum of thirty minutes a day, every other day. That hardly seems an inordinate amount of time considering the tremendous benefits in terms of the impact on the other 162 - 165 hours of the week.