If you live for money, no amount will ever satisfy you.

Work to enjoy life. Work to create value. Work to survive, strive and thrive. But do not work...to work.

Entrepreneurs get distracted by productivity and miss profits.

Corporate folk get distracted by efficiencies and miss effectiveness.

But ballers? Ballers know the difference between a hack and a hoop every time.

Take your shot.

There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

The ever-increasing weight of responsibilities that enmeshes our lives keeps us locked into the system. We become the pulse that keeps the beast alive, but the cost is our own lives. The natural world around us shrinks, crushed beneath the suffocating might of work.

I have never met a woman, or man, who stated emphatically, "Yes, I have it all.'" Because no matter what any of us has—and how grateful we are for what we have—no one has it all.