“The key to changing our past, present, and future is to create our piece of the PIE (our Perceptions, Interpretations, & Expectations) on purpose.”

I may be a successful football player, but I feel like such a failure.

To be influential in our conversations, we must first be aware of two things, (1) what do we want to bring to the conversation and (2) what do we want to bring out in others.

The way to encourage people to be accountable is to engage the responsible, accountable, trustworthy part of their brain.

Worry, shame, and fear can’t be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.

Living exclusively in the land of the head or the heart will always be a limiting, limited experience. The most successful among us have dual citizenship.

Problems occur when we tie our peace of mind to another’s state of mind.

When stress and anxiety have your system stuck in a brainstem loop? Reboot. It’s I.T. for life!

When a loving, meaningful experience is our goal, we must trust an energy that is congruent with that goal as our guide along the way. Bottom line, trust love over fear if love is what you’re after.

The problem with lethargy is that doing nothing validates the fear that nothing can be done.

Holding on to painful images of the past in order to avoid painful experiences in the future serves only to color the present with pain.

There’s no such thing as a ‘stressful’ situation.

Family is the place where acceptance and validation are most needed, but often the hardest to find.

Regardless of the problem, as long as our solution requires someone else to change, we will never know the power and promise of self-determination.

There are two ways to make someone important in our lives … we can either love them or hate them.

You can’t ‘cope with’ change anymore than you can ‘manage’ stress.

Our past is not, as some fear, a series of events carved in stone that we must carry around for the rest of our lives… but a kaleidoscope of experiences that, when viewed through different lenses, can ‘color’ (change) how we see our present and future.

If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be.

I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

Give to another human being without the expectation of a return.

That’s where all good music comes from, I think – anything that’s likely to have an impact on pop culture comes from a point where there’s no expectation of it becoming anything other than personal.

Service standards keep rising. As competitors render better and better service, customers become more demanding. Their expectations grow.

[A new all-encompassing national identification system] contradicts some of our most sacrosanct American principles of personal liberty and expectations of privacy and is far in excess of what is needed to provide us with the security and protections we all want.

Education is a shared commitment between dedicated teachers, motivated students and enthusiastic parents with high expectations.