We all go through stages. Concerns about appearances, making good impressions, being popular, comparing yourself to others, having unbridled ambition, wanting to make money, striving to be recognized and noticed and trying to establish yourself, all fade as your responsibilities and character grow.

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.

I define discipline as the ability to make + keep promises and to honor commitments.

The great contributors in life are those who, though afraid of the knock at the door, still answer it.

If you are an effective manager of your self, your discipline comes from within; it is a function of your independent will.

True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).

Without exception, empathy is always appropriate.