Personal and private and public and professional lives are blended.

Separating them is what makes a fraud, hypocrite, alter ego.

When you say the word marketing, do you think of serving? Until you do, you’re going to live far below your highest potential.

Freedom on the inside comes when validation from the outside doesn’t matter.

All too often people pretend to be professional. "Professionalism" is sometimes a facade for fraud. Be pro, but be real. Honesty and transparency combined with character, competence and real results is the key to being a true pro.

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.

I'm always amazed that people will stand around books for hours and only look at the spine. I think I should write a book called "the power of having a spine" - #metaphor