“Turn your fear into fire.” Fear is the precursor to possibility.  It’s the energy that we can yield to, and allow it to limit our lives by doing only what’s safe.  And it’s also the energy we can reframe – to become the push we need to escape the ordinary and become extraordinary. When you face your fear and do it anyway you create the distinction between existing and living. Why play it safe?  Confront your fear and convert it to fire.

“What’s comfortable is rarely profitable.” The road to riches – however defined – is paved with obstacles to be overcome.  It’s not the path for slackers, for those who seek comfort instead of challenge. But those difficulties, those challenges, yield to discipline and persistence.  Barriers break down when focused effort is applied. If you want more

“Why not today?” Whether saving for a rainy day, or working out to improve your health, or taking the seminar that didn’t seem so important before, but is now crucial to your future – why wait? Why wait until it’s too late, when the opportunity is now clearly in view?  Why wait until it’s difficult, when you have the chance to do it while it’s easy?  Why delay, why limit possibility? Tomorrow you’ll wish you started today.

“A briefcase full of twenty-dollar buzzwords won’t get you anywhere.” Because talk is cheap.  Actions count. What you do is greater than what you say.  So next time  you’re tempted to unload that vocabulary of popular refrains, refrain.  Stop talking and start doing.

“Breakthroughs live on the edge.”   Breakthroughs don’t exist in the middle.  You have to get outside the conventional mindset, the accepted truths,  the convenient assumptions. You have to break out of the ordinary. You can live very safely, very comfortably  in the middle, but you will never test your true capabilities, you will never realize just have far you can go. Find out how far you can go.  Get out to the edge, and try life beyond the ordinary.