Small, daily creative actions bolster positivity and inspire resolute thinking. In my own career, relentless positivity and creativity have always been my secret weapons.

Negative thinking releases stress hormones, raises blood pressure, suppresses your immune system, and leads to a host of other health problems. Negative thinking impairs your cognitive ability and memory. Worst of all, negativity becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. When you expect a negative outcome, you tune your intuition to act accordingly,

Happiness isn’t an accident. The science is clear on this: human happiness isn’t gained from achievement. It’s chosen. We decide to be happy, and then that decision helps drive the achievement that brings us fulfillment, not the other way around.

I wrote this book to help you unlock a hidden part of yourself, a critical space sorely neglected in our culture. So many of us live our lives with a nagging sense that something important is missing.

When you create, you’re not just creating art or a product or a business, you’re creating possibilities.

Was I truly living the life I’d intended? Was I fulfilling my true calling?

If whatever you’re facing isn’t making sense yet, if you can’t see the lesson in it, you haven’t zoomed out far enough.

You learn from every failure. You build confidence in failure, you begin to trust that every failure contains a lesson or an opportunity. It’s the universe’s way of telling you something you haven’t figured out yet.

Confidence, courage, and enthusiasm play a central role in anyone’s success. They affect the way you carry yourself in the world. It’s the difference between “Um, here’s my work? I, uh, hope you like it? Bye.” and “Here’s my work. I’d love some feedback.” Sharing with courage, confidence, and enthusiasm starts things out on the right foot.