Success is a Choice

"The wise man does at once what the fool does finally."

- Baltasar Gracián

Insight: We often push actions that would benefit us most into the future.

Insight: Anything worth doing is worth doing immediately.

Insight: Difficulties do not stop for those who do not take actions to prevent them.

"Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction."

- Baltasar Gracián

Insight: The people closest to us most often shape and challenge our thinking.

Principle: Cultivate friendships with people that challenge and add to you, and try to do the same for others.

"Courage is... the universal virtue of all those who choose to do the right thing over the expedient thing. It is the common currency of all those who do what they are supposed to do in a time of conflict, crisis, and confusion."

- Florence Nightingale

Insight: Courage can often come through an internal battle between doing what is right versus what is convenient - something that many people choose.