…as leaders of ourselves and others, we are all coaches. The best of us don’t tell others what to do. We tell them how to choose what to do and we help them learn where to find the confidence to actually make decisions. … Sometimes the insights are profound, and the resulting shift is nearly miraculous. Sometimes there’s nothing.

Forgiveness and harm are both two-way exchanges of energy. All things are, because we are connected in ways that few understand but each of us has experienced. When we hurt others, we hurt ourselves. When we forgive, we feel peace. Why is that?

So what’s the secret to glowing happiness? It all boils down to knowing who you are. It’s really that simple.

“...almost every attribute of your potential - from intelligence to creativity to leadership to personality and engagement - is interconnected with others. ...We need to stop trying to be faster alone, and start working to become stronger together.”

"Imagine the homecoming joy, deep below,
That the dark eyes down there see
As light, stored in sweetness, returning to ground,"

A well-played life results from deft, determined shifts in our focus from one area to another.

Fearlessness. Can you imagine it? 

Happiness is the joy we feel when aware that we’re becoming our best self.

Fear may help us produce short-term results, but they’re unsustainable. Fear eats us from the inside out. It provides useful, catabolic energy, sure, for the immediate task. But over the long term, fear will either result in atrophy because we’re hiding and not using our talent, or we’ll cramp up and collapse because we’re asking more of ourselves than we have to give.

The awareness that emerges from stillness, the way I experience it, is the wellspring of happiness.