A fantastic analogy for the power of focus is racing cars. When your car begins to skid, the natural reflex is to look at the wall in an attempt to avoid it. But if you keep focusing on what you fear, that's exactly where you'll end up. Professional racers know that we unconsciously steer in the direction of our focus, so with their lives on the line, they turn their focus away from the wall and towards the open track.

Often we are caught in a mental trap of seeing enormously successful people and thinking they are where they are because they have some special gift. Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action.

You are NOT what you eat, you are what you digest and assimilate.

The quality of my life was the quality of my questions.

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

Take the time to understand your audience's concerns.

The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day.