If you have ideas, a story to tell, you have domain expertise, and you share that idea with the world, you unlock levels of magic and serendipity that haven't been possible in the history of humanity.

There's a lot of, like, superstition around change that tells us that it takes a certain amount of time, that we need to be able to do a certain amount of things. And I have just found over and over in my life that that's an illusion.

Rather than thinking of how can you become a better version of yourself and how could you improve yourself is, I would say, how can you stop suppressing yourself right now? Because I think a lot of people actually suppress themselves, and that's why they're not happy or successful.

If I can do everything in my power to prevent this marriage from ever having that fate, then I will ... Not, how do I create the best marriage ever, but how do I avoid the worst marriage ever and getting divorced and breaking up? Because that's the reality of life; a lot of people do.

Spend an hour tonight, and take a series of images that represent the person who you want to be in a few years. Make it the back on your phone. Print it out, and look at it repeatedly, and watch your life change.

Carve the path that only I can carve, be the person that only I can be, do the things that only I can do, and write the essay that only I can write.

If you want to be unbreakable, you have to put yourself in situations where a lot of people would give up or break or whatever, meltdown.

When you change your environment, that new environment no longer accepts the version of yourself that you were. It only accepts you stepping into a better version.

Any problem I face has one of three problems: I either need to increase the tempo, raise the standards, or narrow the focus. Every problem.

We have to make decisions today that affect us in the future. And oftentimes, we make decisions today that affect us in the future based on how we feel today, not how we think we're going to feel in the future.

Every time that we have tried to play by someone else's rules, I feel like we've lost. But every time that we have sat down and had a conversation of, like, what are our rules that we want to play by in this marriage, we have been so happy afterwards.

By fearing God so much, you don't fear a lot of things on Earth. And what I find to be very profound is there's a line that Christians use a lot that 'in weakness, there is strength' ... Now, I totally get it—that by being so weak in the face of God, you're so strong in the face of the Earth.

I feel so much more at ease than I ever have because I don't hide anything. And it's not like... we don't intentionally hide things, but we just leave things out, right? And instead, I think I've looked at more opportunities like, where can I share this? Because if I share these things, it no longer has power over me.

A massage therapist can touch a certain pressure point on your body; instant release. They don't need to a very hard, you feel it deeply, and it has a long-lasting impact. That's the same thing when you find the thing. The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. I love that mantra.

Most of the time, I paint it out with the long-term vision of the business, which is which decision is going to benefit us both in the short-term and in the long-term? And if none of the options can benefit both in the short-term and the long-term, I need more options.

I wrote out a very small list of things that I do and a very large list of things that I don't do, and it's all on a sheet. So, it is almost algorithmic. If I get an invitation, I cross-reference it with the sheet, and the answer is yes or no.

I don't go to conferences unless one of my tightest buddies is running that conference ... I don't go to weddings, unless it's in Austin or it's one of the people that I really care about, in which case I ball out.

I don't do cocktail parties. I don't do group dinners that are more than 6 people. I will skip out on a lot of big group events that would be really exciting that I just no longer do.

The distinctiveness is important, but it has to be paired with quality. And distinction and quality—that's what moves the world; that is the stuff that people look at and they say, my goodness.

What is the thing that is you, and how do you live that every day in a place of action, in a place of motion, being aligned with your core values, working towards your mission, embodying your values, all those sorts of things?