• The impossible is done not when others believe it’s possible, but when you believe it.
• The possible becomes impossible when you allow someone else to determine the outcome.
• Believers are always on autopilot – they don’t have to feel success in order to pursue it.
• “With confidence, you have won before you have started.” —Marcus Garvey, activist and orator

• The person I detested most as my boss taught me more than all the others put together that I liked.
• It was the only time I was unhappy in a broadcasting job – and if you’re wondering, I tolerated this person for several difficult years.
• I look back on that period now as a sort of boot camp – I survived, made the grade, improved beyond all expectations and left far more qualified than I arrived – I have been honing the skills I learned since.
• Just as no one wants to spend a career in boot camp, it reminds me that sometimes we’re in uncomfortable situations that can be unpleasant, but in the end not without eventual benefit.

•  A stop-loss order is an order placed with a broker to buy or sell a stock once that stock reaches a certain price to limit an investor’s loss (setting a stop-loss for 10% lower than the price at which you bought the stock will limit any losses to 10%).
• The same is true of troubles – spend time to ask just how much anxiety or damage to your health is a problem actually worth to you.
• When you hit those parameters, unload the problem to help mitigate the losses to you personally.
• Most people needlessly hang on to troubles that would be better off dismissed.

• Celebrate the friend you see in your mirror – the person who is compassionate, cares, never gives up and is dependable and trustworthy, someone safe and always accepting.
• Looking elsewhere for what you want is virtually an impossible task.
• The more you work on and appreciate yourself, the more others are attracted to you for all the right reasons.

• It strikes me that life is a lot like Scrabble.
• Every once in a while, it pays to dump all your unusable letters and start over.
• Dumping troubles that have plagued you and sopped up energy allows for a rebuild not just a work around.
• The best question ever on worry is what price are you willing to pay to hang on to your worries.

• As a radio program director, I always advised my airstaff to constantly be in forward motion – that is, when a song is over move on to what’s next because it creates momentum and anticipation.
• You don’t go back to generate enthusiasm, you go forward which has strong applications in other areas of life.
• Living in the present is a proven formula to be happy and looking forward is the chief way to plan ahead.

• It’s rarely what you say or how likeable you are that wins new friends.
• It’s the way they make you feel about yourself.
• Listening to others and asking questions (not talking about yourself) is the first step in making people feel good in your presence.

If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.
— Dolly Parton

• Without one word spoken, a smile can make your inner power grow. 
• The ability to smile almost always elicits a positive reaction in return (and yes, it works with a mask on because your eyes tell the story of approval and acceptance). 
• You’ve given yourself a gift as well – smiling at others upgrades your mood instantly.

• One of my favorite authors is Amit Sood, MD, the former Mayo Clinic professor of medicine who wrote a guide to stress-free living
• “When you stop judging others, you feel better about yourself and less judged by them.”
• “Ask yourself: Is it really wrong? None of the 88 keys in a piano is wrong. Each key plays a unique tone that sounds perfect if played well and in the right place within the concerto.  Within limits, try to see others’ behaviors as different tones.”
• “A tone that doesn’t sound right in your song isn’t a bad tone. Perhaps you didn’t play it well or it doesn’t fit in your music.”

• My NYU students and I have a deal – they turn their phones and devices off during each one hour and forty-minute class to focus on discussions and I allow them to leave the room (without dirty looks or any form of chastisement) to check their messages if they like during class.
• The majority stay seated, perhaps 20% at most check their phones or use the bathrooms.
• And when I asked them this past week how difficult it is to sit there and not look at their phones, the typical response was they liked it.
• People know too much connectivity breeds distraction so the way to win the battle is to make phone use a win-win.