“If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.”

You design the life you want to have.

You become financially free when your passive income exceeds your expenses.

Every master was once a disaster.

Rich people choose to get paid based on results. Poor people choose to get paid based on time.

For the next seven days, I challenge you not to complain at all.

Complaining is the absolute worst possible thing you could do for your health or your wealth. The worst!

If we’re going to strive for spiritual growth, we have to be willing to put concepts into practice in our everyday lives, in all relationships with all people. You can’t separate your “spiritual life” from your “work life.” They’re both your life! In the same vein, you can’t separate money and happiness.

In every forest, on every farm, in every orchard on earth, it’s what’s under the ground that creates what’s above the ground. That’s why placing your attention on the fruits that you have already grown is futile.

If you want to move to a new level in your life, you must break through your comfort zone and practice doing things that are not comfortable.

Rich people take advice from people who are richer than they are. Poor people take advice from their friends, who are just as broke as they are.

Never try to pull someone up who doesn’t want it…they’ll just pull you down.

Today’s Declaration: I am courageous. I am willing to act in spite of fear.

Don’t let them bother you. In fact, don’t even call them problems; refer to them as “challenges” or “situations”.

Rich people think long-term. They balance their spending on enjoyment today with investing for freedom tomorrow.

Make a decision that from now on, your thoughts do not run you, you run your thoughts. From now on, your mind is not the captain of your ship, you are the captain of the ship, and your mind works for you.

What you hear, you forget; what you see, you remember; what you do, you understand.

Do what you have to do as long as you don’t hurt people.

Waiting around and doing these lines over and over and finally having to go in and loop the lines and dub them.

I do have a self-censor; everybody does, or at least most who are not pathological do.

By best, I mean when I have a real sense of doing the right thing and doing good for people and the connected universe of everybody.

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

We love America just as much as they do. But in a different way.

If you don’t love what you’re doing and you can’t give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it’s business or baseball, or the theater, or any field.