Many poor decisions are born in the vacuum of self-awareness.

We compromise, taking cold comfort in the assumption that we’ve removed the possibility of failure as we buckle up in the passenger seat and let life take the wheel.

To dare in life is to make yourself vulnerable to the possibility of failure. Most of us don’t welcome failure. So instead we avoid taking risks.

You can’t make time, you can only take time.

Being busy can be likened to tumbling down an existential staircase: stimulus, reaction, stimulus, reaction. This frenetic cycle of reactivity holds our attention hostage, limiting our ability to recognize opportunities for love, growth, and purpose.

Being busy doesn’t necessarily mean we’re being productive.

But he’s alive, happy, and whole, which is all a parent can really ask for their children.

Productivity is about getting more done by working on fewer things.

There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.