When you remove quitting as an option from your mind, progress becomes inevitable. A simple question that has helped me: "If stopping were impossible, if I had no choice, what would I do next?" Crazy how that reframe expands your thinking on the path forward.

A major cheat code in life: Being a pleasure to deal with. Kind when others aren’t. Calm when things go sideways. Reliable under pressure. Intelligence alone is overrated. Be someone who lightens the load for folks around them. People value people who make their lives easier.

Truth: Worrying is a fool's errand. It gives you something to do, but nothing to show for it. It’s a treadmill for the mind. You move a lot. But go nowhere. Redirect the energy. The same brain that builds worst-case scenarios can build best-case plans. Big difference.

Worry is the most expensive use of your imagination. You pay in peace. You pay in sleep. You pay in joy. And 90% of the time? The thing you feared never even happens.

Underrated life skill: Be a multiplier. Teach what you know, spotlight others, connect dots. With no strings attached. Ironically, it's one of the fastest ways to level up your own life as well. Want more success? Be the reason someone else gets theirs.

Underappreciated fact: There's no limit to how many times you can start over. For most things, you don’t get just one chance to figure it out. You get a hundred little chances to try again every single day. The next attempt starts the second you decide it does.

The most powerful decision you can make in life is to choose "again". Do the workout, again. Eat the right food, again. Get up early, again. Be kind, again. Trust, again. So no to things that aren't a fit for you, again. A lot of progress is hidden in repeating the right things.

Underrated life advice: Stop saying you’ll change tomorrow. You don't need a Monday or a fresh month. You need action before the excuses kick in. Tomorrow lets you fantasize about change without doing anything. Real change starts on an average Tuesday, when no one is watching.

Micromanagement is a tax on trust. Every time you jump in “just to help,” you send a louder message: “I don’t think you can handle it.” Keep doing it, and you’ll build a culture where people stop trying, or one where they start believing you’re right. Or worse, both.

A major cheat code in life: Realizing someone has to be the exception. Someone beats the odds. Someone breaks the cycle. Someone builds a life no one saw coming. No rule says it can’t be you.