There are few things more important than being prepared—for an interview, an important meeting, selling your home, a new baby—the list goes on.

How can you showcase your unique expertise, valuable experience, and strong education without sounding egotistical?

A quality education prepares you to make a living, make better choices, and have more doors open as you build a solid life.

Take your place among experienced professionals by focusing on ways to learn, grow, and succeed.

By establishing a strategic online presence through your website, social media, keywords, meta tags, and Google AdWords, the world may discover your expertise and "beat a path to your door.

Put in the time. To position yourself as an expert, practice, apply, experiment, volunteer, and work within your area of knowledge to deepen your own understanding as you build real-life experience.

When you have paid the price, earned the right, and done the homework to be called an expert, people perceive you differently.

Your expertise can elevate your impressions to bring you to an entirely new realm.

Your body language continuously communicates for you, whether you are aware of it or not. Are your intended messages being well conveyed?

One of the most compelling things about you is the energy you put forth—whether it is positive, negative, or neutral. And that is only the beginning.

The way you walk, talk, stand, and carry yourself sends messages to others that can attract or repel, encourage or discourage, and impress or depress.

Always work on extending your territory and capacity

Though I despise it, I do not doubt His Love for the creatures. I have seen it —His ever-reaching outward for any hand that might reach back. At His love, I tremble yet believe.

We live in a time where brands are people and people are brands.

The risk of an all-out nuclear holocaust destroying all life on the planet has diminished, but the danger of actual nuclear weapons use has increased.

I don't believe in God, but I do believe in that chaotic reality, and also this: that none of us knows anything about anything. Period.

I think pastors are the worst listeners. We're so used to speaking, teaching, giving answers. We must learn to be quiet, quit being so verbal, learn to pay attention to what's going on, and listen.

You give yourself to the world for people to either praise or destroy.

I want to look beyond the legends, to find the real story of Scotland. And it's every bit as thrilling.

I used to get so comfortable running the hurdles, I was just like a ballet dancer going out there and going through the routines.

Momma, you're special," Renesmee told me without any surprise, like she was commenting on the color of my clothes.