My key takeaways: Make a commitment to cultivating mindfulness and living in the present moment as your way of being (vs. autopilot living occupied with thoughts of past or future). Pay attention to the present moment without judgment. Dwell in stillness and attend to the moment-to-moment unfolding of the present, adding nothing, subtracting nothing. Ask yourself in this moment “Am I awake? Where is my mind right now?” Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing. But...

My key takeaways: Your outcomes are a result of your habits.  Clarify your long-term vision of who you want to be and how you want to live, then with awareness and the help of habit-forming tools, intentionally cultivate the habits that will bring that vision to life. Habits seem to make little difference on any given day and yet the impact they deliver over the months and years can be enormous. It is only when looking back two, five or perhaps ten years later that the value of good habits...