Growth

Embrace your journey to your own potential. It wasn't until I stopped worrying about my own validation and finally refocused my energy on things I could actually change that I finally grew as a person and as a professional.

If what you want is different than what you have, then you need to change what you are doing.

These stories we tell about ourselves — they're almost like our infrastructure, like railroads or highways. We can build them almost any way we want to. But once they're in place, this whole inner landscape grows up around them.

When you try hard at everything you do, even if it feels utterly foolish to do so, you're opening up future doors and possibilities that you might not be seeing in the moment.

When you achieve your dreams, it's not so much what you get — it's who you become.

If you're the kind of person who is scared and courageous at the same time, you might end up doing big things.

Don't do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great. Do what's uncomfortable and scary and hard but pays off in the long run. Be willing to fail. Let yourself fail. Fail in the way and the place where you would be proud to fail.

Ideally, we lose ourselves in what we read only to return to ourselves transformed, and part of a more expansive world.

Your life is going to be a gradual process of becoming kinder and more loving. Hurry up. Speed it along. Start right now.

The real hero's journey is the journey from strength to weakness.

For in learning how to be a nobody, you will learn how not to be a jerk. You will tip well. You will empathize. You will be a mentor, and a generous one.

Don't get comfortable. Ever. If you're not too comfortable, it's always easier to leave, to move on, and hopefully to move up.