Plato said, be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.  The Dalai Lama said compassion is the wish to free others from suffering. Those quotes challenged me to think about the differences between sympathy, empathy and compassion.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There's a great ease of mind that comes from being content. Contentment can make a moment of silence be the best sound. Contentment can make a crystal clear distinction between our wants and our needs. What do you really need in this life? Let's learn to be content when our basic needs are met. Let's challenge ourselves to be content with what we look like. Let's challenge ourselves to be content with who we are. Happiness won't come to us if we don't appreciate what we already have. We have the ability to be truly happy, and the trick is that we have to be truly content to be aware of it.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What makes us different is what makes us who we are. We have to be willing to be different and embrace it true happiness comes from who we know we are, rather than what we think we should look like. Looks will always change and who we truly are will not — just love, trust and believe in yourself. We all have our purpose to be here, but sometimes it's hidden beneath our fear. Become your own self expert and discover your unique qualities. Understand your values. Revisit experiences that have shaped your life. Continue to edit your thoughts and your beliefs. Continue to edit your understanding of the world around you. Continue to take personal inventory of what you're spending too much time with, or not enough time with. Decide and understand what your true happiness is, and reset your happiness daily and as many times throughout the day as possible. And please have a little faith that every day will be all right! No one has ever made a difference by being like everybody else, and how we choose to feel is how we are. Know that life and competition have nothing to do with anyone else but yourself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Life is hard. Often, it feels like it's not going our way, and often, we might be right. We have to constantly condition ourselves to see things from a different perspective. We must continue to see our lives through fresh eyes. It reminds me of the story of the poor man and his house... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are 24 hours in a day, how do you spend them? Social Media TV? What do you watch? And for how long? What do you let into your brain? Positive or negative? Are you searching for perfection? Perfection doesn't exist. Close to perfection does, and that's great enough for me. Perfection is merely the idea of what we individually perceive it to be. Perfection can be imagined. Not when nothing else can be added. But when nothing else can be taken away. I find perfection in imperfection — it's beautiful.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I don't know the secret of success, but I do know that failure is trying to please everybody. You can't control results. Your entire life is created by your thoughts and then your language. Live a life you love. Learn yourself and be your authentic self. Do you know who you are? Who do you believe you are? What makes you tick? What makes you smile? Continue to ask yourself what makes you happy? Choose happy? What makes you sad? What makes you mad? What motivates you what inspires you? How do you make others feel? Don't settle into somebody you wouldn't like define your occupation rather than your occupation defining you the only thing worth doing is what we do for others appreciate what nature has to offer. Be aware of the lessons nature tries to teach us everything takes time and deserves effort. Earn your leadership every day. Have a clear vision. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to my new podcast where we will discuss everything needed to lead a mentally and emotionally healthy existence, and don't think there won't be any physical exercise required. That's the point, life is about balance and the one thing we can all count on is that life will do EVERYTHING to knock you off-balance. So what do you do when that happens? How do you handle life's challenges and more so, how do you actually thrive in the face of adversity? Well think of me as your life coach, sherpa, mentor, best friend and brother in the fight. I am here for you and I need you to be here for me, so TOGETHER we can make our world and others, a happier and healthier place. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices