Your life experience will never far exceed the expectations of your peers, because to stay connected to them there is an unconscious contract that says we're going to be within this range of each other. Now, on the other hand, if for some reason your friends have a higher expectation for life than you do, just to stay on the team you've got to raise your standard.

With goals you can create the future in advance.

At any moment the decision you make can change the course of your life forever.

Innovation is an ongoing process that you build into your culture.

What kind of person will I have to become in order to achieve all that I want?

Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.

It sounds so stupid, so basic, but when you are really in a grateful state, you are like a magnet for joy.