Sometimes, all it takes is one conversation with an extraordinary person to reroute the rest of your life in an entirely new direction,

Principle #3: Productive Exhaustion Requires Scheduled Renewal

Small, consistent and regular always beats all fire and bravado at the beginning with a gigantic flameout at the end.

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory,” noted humanitarian and polymath Albert Schweitzer.

Leap #5: The Shift from Taking from the World to Giving to the World

“People living deeply have no fear of dying,” wrote Anaïs Nin. Norman Cousins observed that “the great tragedy of life is not death but what we allow to die inside of us while we live.”

Yet do remember that pursuits that don’t push you will never improve you. And those activities that are hardest to do are generally the most valuable to do. And that fear always screams loudest when your magic is closest.

Too many of us postpone doing those things that make our soul come alive until some imaginary ideal time arrives. It never comes. There’s no better time to become the human being you know you can be and handcraft the life of your most exuberant desires than now. The world could completely change tomorrow.

Stateswoman Golda Meir once wrote: “Trust yourself. Create the kind of self you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of higher achievement.”