What we focus on determines how we feel. And how we feel - our state of mind - powerfully influences our actions and interactions.

The only reason we really pursue goals is to cause ourselves to expand and grow. Achieving goals by themselves will never make us happy in the long term; it's who you become, as you overcome the obstacles necessary to achieve your goals, that can give you the deepest and most long-lasting sense of fulfillment.

When you go on an extreme diet, your body's self-preservation mechanism responds by burning calories as slowly as possible. Of course, that makes it much more difficult to lose weight.

The most powerful way to control your focus is through the use of QUESTIONS

We will act consistently with our view of who we truly are, whether that view is accurate or not.

Understand that all emotions serve you. Those you once thought of as negative emotions are merely calls to action. For example, if you feel frustrated it means that you believe things could be better, and they're not. This is a call to action telling you there's something you must do to make this better now. This "negative" emotion is actually a gift if you use it effectively.

Remember: courage, unused, diminishes. Commitment, unexercised, wanes. Love, unshared, dissipates.