What if your craziest idea is your greatest possibility? I have come to realize that sometimes you need a little delusion to create something extraordinary. You have to believe in a possibility that your current reality cannot yet support. Twenty years ago, if you had met me, you would have s

What if appreciation could change the way you experience everything? I have come to realize that one of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves is the ability to appreciate what we already have. Think about how many moments we experience every day without giving them a second thought. The wa

Are You Managing Your Emotions, or Are Your Emotions Managing You? One of the greatest lessons I have learned in life is that emotions are powerful, but they are not always accurate reflections of reality. Think about how many times you have said something out of anger, made a decision out of

Who is making your choices, you or your habits? Have you ever reached the end of a day and wondered where the time went? You were busy all day, doing everything you normally do, yet you cannot remember much about it. I believe this is how many people spend most of their lives. Not necessarily

Are you taking your own best advice? I have spent years helping people work through challenges in their lives, and something I have noticed is how often we already know what we need to do. We just struggle to give ourselves the same advice we would so freely give someone we care about. Think

Are you afraid of the unknown or your prediction of it? Have you ever stopped yourself from doing something because you were afraid of what might happen, even though nothing had actually happened yet? I have come to realize something interesting about fear. Many times, it is not the unknown t

Whose judgment are you really afraid of? I came across a question that made me think about how much influence we give other people over our lives. Are we really worried about what others think of us, or are we worried about what we think of ourselves and simply using others as the excuse?

Are you living or just maintaining? I came across a question that really made me think about how so many of us live our lives. Are we more focused on managing the life we have or creating the life we truly want? Think about that for a moment. Most of us wake up every morning with respon

Are you valued or just needed? I have noticed something over the years while working with people. Some of the most exhausted people I meet are also the ones everyone seems to depend on. They are the ones who always answer the phone, solve the problems, make the sacrifices, and find a way to m

Why do we suffer so much in life? I have come to realize that much of our suffering does not come from what happens to us, but from what we expected to happen. We create expectations about our relationships, careers, finances, and even how others should treat us. Then, when life unfolds diffe

Are you competing with the wrong person? The other day, I attended an event that meant a great deal to me. Many old friends were there, people I had known for decades. I remember when we were younger, it seemed like everyone was competing. Who was more successful? Who looked better? Who had the

Do you love yourself enough to stay committed? People often ask me how I stay so disciplined. How can I write a daily blog for over ten years without missing a day, coach clients around the world, write books, research investments, walk 15 to 20 miles a week, and push myself through strength tra

Are your choices creating the life you desire? One of the greatest challenges I see in people is their inability to recognize just how much influence they have over their own lives. Not because life is always fair or because everything goes according to plan, but because they forget that they ha

How much of your future are you sacrificing to yesterday? The other night while traveling, I had the opportunity to sit and talk with a very talented young man. As our conversation continued, he began sharing some of the trauma he had experienced in his life and how those experiences still affec

Can your True Self survive every condition? I have learned that one of the greatest tests of who you truly are is not what you say about yourself. It is who you become when life changes the conditions around you. What happens when someone praises you? Can you receive it without allowing your

Are you protecting your limitations or challenging them? One of the hardest things for me to watch is someone with incredible potential live far beneath it. Not because they lack ability. Not because they are incapable of more. But because somewhere along the way, they accepted a belief abou

Is your fear protecting you or limiting you? Have you ever wondered how many great ideas never became anything because someone was afraid of looking foolish? We tend to look at people who accomplish incredible things and assume they had something we do not. More intelligence. More confidence.

Who are you practicing becoming? I hear people talk all the time about finding themselves, as if somewhere out there is a finished version of them waiting to be discovered. I see it differently. I believe we discover who we are by becoming who we were always capable of being. That is wh

What would you miss tomorrow that you barely noticed today? Yesterday reminded me how easy it is to miss just how good an ordinary day can be. I spent part of the afternoon with my youngest grandson. Later, I was at a sporting event with family and a friend. Then I came home, picked up two of

What if this obstacle is preparing you for what comes next? I spend a lot of time listening to people. And one thing I hear far too often is how unfair life seems to be. Someone else got the opportunity. Someone else has more money. Someone else has the relationship, the health, the success,