Ineffective people live day after day with unused potential.

Interdependence is a higher value than independence

Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent.

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.

Make specific appointments with yourself to work on goals, and treat an appointment with yourself as you'd treat an appointment with anybody else.

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It's not what they're not doing or should be doing that's the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is "out there," stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

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.