3-2-1: On being bigger than your problems, personal responsibility, and inner circle friendships

The most effective way to solve those problems is to strengthen your resolve to grow and do what must be done. Choosing the powerful positions from which you need to operate and the necessary required actions are now critical. Your life will be the result of your choices.

I saw the whole thing was made up and that the game of success was just that, a game. I realized I could invent another game. I settled on a game called I am a contribution. Unlike success and failure, contribution has no other side. It is not arrived at by comparison. All at once I found that the fearful question, “Is it enough?” and the even more

It would be nice to be able to skip the scariest or most overwhelming problems. But to face no problems at all would leave you with nothing worth doing; so you might even say that coming up against your limitations, and figuring out how to respond, is precisely what makes a life meaningful and satisfying.

How you respond to a situation like this—a challenge, a new situation, something that bothers you—depends very much on who you are, what you care about, and why.

What’s the smallest step I can take toward a big thing today? Why am I so worked up about this? What blessings can I count right now? Why do I care so much about impressing people? What is the harder choice I’m avoiding? Do I rule my fears, or do they rule me? How will today’s difficulties reveal my character?*