Exhausted with purpose is fulfillment. 

Exhausted without purpose is suffering. 

Every assumption is based on previous experience combined with our ability to interpret and process the information we can recall in conjunction with our expectations of the future. 

If we want to adjust our assumptions or the assumptions of others we need to change the expectations as well as the internal knowledge, since we cannot change past experiences. 

We all get offended.

We all take offense. 

We always choose if we are offended or take offense. 

The choice is always ours. 

The mind interprets, digests, uses, and internalizes everything we feed it. The way it gets used is not based on the ingredient itself, but on what we choose to do with it. Every piece of information can be good or bad, every ingredient can help us or hurt us. We can program our brains to look for the good, to see the good, and to find the good. 

Social problems lead to physical and mental problems. 

Lack of true human connection leads to a variety of sicknesses.

Lack of true human connection leads to depression and anxiety. 

 

Optimism determines if you can be successful. 

Knowledge and skill determine what you can be successful in. 

Loyalty is proven with action.

Loyalty is proven with support.

Loyalty doesn’t need to be proven, but is every day. 

When those around you are sinking, they need support not advice. 

When those around you are falling, they need support not advice. 

Eventually, advice is good, but not until those around you are stable. 

Support first. 

Encourage second. 

Advise last. 

Good Leaders make the tough decisions easy. 

Bad leaders make the tough decisions hard. 

Loving others is almost impossible until you love yourself. 

Loving yourself has nothing to do with others, and that is what makes it hard to do.

Loving yourself is hard, but once you do, loving others is easy.