Self-provocation is putting the pressure on yourself to spring into action—to lead with your heart when you head just can’t come up with the reasons.

When you lead the collaborative effort you show that you are willing to see the value in others, their ideas and their beliefs.

An oasis draws attention just by being present. It need not boast or proclaim its value. The value is implicit in its welcoming existence.

It’s when you commit to doing something for someone else when you have nothing to gain directly, that you are on the verge of finding your life purpose.

The first truth to accept is that admitting we can do better is not admitting that we are less than or that we are a personal failure as a human being.

I’ve learned to start a conversation with an attitude that I just want to learn something about someone else for the sake of knowing them, not because I want something from them.

Tomorrow is the next opportunity to be in the present, fully engaged in the process of creating something that springs from your creative energy.

I am an improvisational co-creator expressing the creative energy of the universe in the moment to moment unfolding of my life.

We need to press ourselves incrementally against intellectual sharpening stones. We must engage more and more precise and accurate information and test our knowledge and our ability to make sense of it by understanding the why behind the what.

I get busy planning and implementing my plans. I adapt. I reshape, retool, recruit others to join me, and generate more creative energy as I anticipate bringing myself closer to that which draws me.