awareness

When you're busy enough, "boredom" isn't a thing - it just feels like a break. It's fantastic and rare. A chance to think, to put things together in your head, be intentional with moves forward, and actually really wonderful.

Stuff happens. Your stories about it determine whether it’s manageable or not.

Mastery is not a function of genius or talent; it is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge.

Pessimists see problems. They worry about what could go wrong in the future. Optimists see possibilities. They focus on what could go right in the future. Proactive people turn problems into possibilities. They give us reasons to be optimistic about the future.

Addictions are attempts to attain bliss without releasing defensive patterns.

Our external struggles with life mirror our internal struggles with integrity.