If there’s pain coming, the sooner you bring it out and face it, the sooner you move on to something better.

If you can’t ignore it and you can express it fully, what can you do?

I know I can notice my feelings and immediately take a pause.

Keep being strong, keep pushing. Except when you need a rest; when you need to put your feet up.

‘Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening without wishing it were different.'

Listen to yourself next time you find yourself saying, ‘I have no choice’. Stop for a moment and consider whether that is true.

‘Flow’ is a state of being in which people become so immersed in the joy of their work or activity “that nothing else seems to matter.”

This was time well spent on something I never realized I needed.

Perhaps we all have an outdated view of what aging looks like. So, I’m telling people this is what 63 looks like, at least for me.

The underlying message is this, you need to be different, you need to be less.

Okay, this is a paraphrase of a great quote I almost remember, and ‘trash’ is perhaps too harsh a word, but the metaphor works, and...

Did I have to wait until now to feel happy and relaxed and content? Maybe I could have been happy, relaxed, and content all along.

Don’t allow yourself to be reduced to this one dimension. You are more than just a pretty face.

Scary? For sure. But I’m guessing it’s also life-affirming and exhilarating.

You are not in danger if someone doesn’t like your haircut, your ideas or even you.

What really matters is how much time it takes you to return to your confident self.

I am comfortable being me, because I know I am enough. And so is everyone else.

I wasn’t teaching a class at 3 am, I was helping leaders to be better at leading, to feel supported in their new role.

Spending time doing nothing but thinking about you; it’s hard work but it’s the real work of your life.

What if it’s all in the story we tell ourselves? What if how we navigate through our life is more about how we describe it?