When someone says you can't do something because of XYZ, is that true? Or are they playing with your life with their good intentions to keep you safe?

Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.

To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.

Rule 1: Be kind.Rule 2: Don't be a doormat when they step on you.Kindness and sticking up for yourself go hand in hand if you want happiness.

Don’t allow your crisis to become a crisis of faith.

The bigger the mess, the greater the progress.

Every penny NOT spent on investing in yourself (after basic needs of course) may be a wasted future opportunity from missing learns and connects.

Earning is a product of learning. You're only one letter away from earning more.

Want true success? Ask yourself these 3 questions daily:1. Who can I serve?2. Where can I contribute greatest?3. Is my work today congruent with my future goals?

Work is meant to create a desired outcome. If your work is not creating the dream, what are you working on?

Where there is no integrity, there is no unity.

Thanksgiving is a joyous invitation to shower the world with love and gratitude.

We cannot force the development of mindfulness.

To pull off any look, wear it with confidence.

Drink wine, drink poetry, drink virtue.

There's no place you can go on the prairie that you don't hear the white noise of the wind, steady and rough as surf curling along a non-existant shore.

You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood.

If I'm a leader, I have a mission.

A poem has secrets that the poet knows nothing of.

I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.

The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.