Lessons for Living: What Only Adversity Can Teach You

and lost connection with higher forces—which are only found inside. Finally, you need to have expansive discipline. This refers to action steps you must force yourself to take to expand your life. In business this means reaching out to broaden your base of customers or connections. It also includes taking steps to develop new ideas and undertake cr

Faith is a deeply held conviction that there is a higher meaning in life that cannot be proved by outer events.

The meaning of life, with all its pain, becomes comprehensible when you realize that you go out into the world to develop a relationship with yourself.

The human dilemma is that the important things in life are unprovable. It is precisely because faith does not require proof that it has so much power.

If you want to get close to someone, you must enter what I call the zone of engagement. This is the space where people get close enough to each other to become vulnerable. Vulnerability causes fear and fear leads to conflict. But if the conflict is handled properly, a real bond is created. Conflict becomes a kind of sense organ through which you re

nothing new can be brought into the world in a state of complete certainty. Creating requires you to go into the unknown.

To act in the face of the unknown brings up a primal fear in most of us. You can overcome this fear if you learn to look at action in a new way. Here are three principles that make the process of taking action more effective.

Density Dynamic people take more actions in one morning than most people take in a month. The goal is to take many more actions in a given time period than you normally do. Start slowly, try to take even just two actions in a day, and increase from there.

There is always a point when we resent the effort we have to make and want to quit. Paradoxically, these dark moments are what give us the opportunity to develop faith. If during these times of demoralization when the outer world promises nothing you find the will to push yourself forward, you are relying on higher, inner forces. That is faith. As