• The opposite of “not sure” is “not unsure” even though both phrases describe uncertainty.
• It’s like “partly cloudy” and “partly sunny” – decades ago chambers of commerce everywhere were pushing local media outlets to go with the more positive weather forecast wording even though the actual result they were forecasting was the same.
• When in doubt, choose “I’m not unsure” over “not sure” when faced with a goal and put that optimism to work for you.

• Humans are driven to please constantly feeling pressure in work and social situations to be good enough or at the very least not to disappoint.
• That’s backwards – there is a better way.
• All that anyone can ever expect is that you will make the best effort possible – they don’t have the right to set goals that in the end wind up affecting self-worth.
• Expect the effort not the ability to define the result.

• 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.