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.

Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.

Meaning equals emotion and emotion equals life. Choose consciously and wisely.

How you feel is not the result of what is happening in your life-it is your interpretation of what is happening.

Find someone worse off than you and help them. It will put your life in perspective.

Read no less than ½ hour a day or listen to audiobooks while in the car or cleaning the house. Biographies of great people taught me, as I said, that even eminent people fail but keep getting up.

Effective leaders know that resources are never the problem; it's always a matter or resourcefulness.