The world doesn’t work without honesty. So everyone wants honesty from other people. But only you know in your own heart if you are being honest or not. Only you know if you are shortchanging your partner, your loved ones or your friends. Only you know if you are being honest.

Walking the Plank See, life is a wonderful adventure. And people who make the most of it-who have the most fun and get the most out of living-are those who have a high self-image. Their comfort zones make it possible for them to do just about anything. They may be a little less certain, like…

When you follow your passions and put your vision first, you don’t always know how things are going to work out. You may be doing something unconventional that hasn’t been done before or trying something new that you’ve always loved, but never had the nerve to put your faith in before. It’s exciting, but it…

The 27 / 37 Plan So let me give you some real life examples of how this stuff works. My own story, I call The 27 / 37 Plan. By the time I was twenty-seven, I’d had thirty-seven different jobs. So my truth was, I don’t last very long on any given job.

It’s easy to say, “Well, we do want more trust around here, but you go first. The last time I trusted somebody, they stabbed me in the back.”

Respect is one of the values that is a gift to yourself and a gift to other people. We often say that we need more forgiveness, more patience, more understanding in our culture, in our society, in our schools or in our workplace. But the first thing you have to do, in order to make…

What are you passionate about? What means the most to you? What drives you? What inspires you? What gives you energy? Your vision should be fueled by those passions. Don’t settle for a vision that seems like a good idea or sounds like the kind of thing you’re supposed to want to do. Pick it…

Mike Smukula, a good friend of mine, used to work at the Albuquerque Auto Auction. One day at the auction in 2004, he was run over, when a man, driving a car across the parking lot at 45 mph, had a heart attack and died. The accident fractured my friend’s skull, rupturing his brain.

How about you? Are you accountable for your choices? Or are you making excuses? Are you spending more energy on looking for the reasons why you’re not accountable than you are on getting things done?

You know, Buckminster Fuller, a great philosopher, says that we’ve all been born with a genius mind and we spend our whole lives learning how to be un-geniuses. And it’s all because of our filtering system. We don’t just accept the evidence of what we’re capable of doing. We filter out the things that we’re…