"If you build it they will come"

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"Be vulnerable. Be uncool. Brene Brown has spent a decade studying vulnerability and she led us through a 1,000-person karaoke version of “Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey (talk about risk!) to prove that vulnerability is worth showing. Vulnerability requires scary things: risk + emotional exposure + uncertainty. The benefit of feeling these things is emotional connection and a sense of belonging. There are three things that vulnerable people do: choose gratitude and joy over scarcity; creativity over comparison; and contribution over criticism and cynicism."

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"The power of yes. According to J.D. Roth, you should practice saying yes to everything that comes your way. Saying yes can lead to a chain of events that drive to change. After you say yes, you have to learn how to focus and say no. Say no to the things that don’t excite you so that you can say “hell yeah” to the things that do. That’s when action can happen."

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"No one is fearless. Respect your fear. Danielle LaPorte boldly said, “Respect fear and remember that you get to tell it where to be.” Visualize it as placing your emotions, whatever they are (excitement, fear, anxiety, caution, etc.), in seats on a bus. Think about each one and what it’s telling you, and then decide who sits in the front, behind you, all the way through the back. Accept that fear and then place it appropriately."

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“Become exceptional at your job.” Cal Newport, a writer and assistant professor of computer science at Georgetown University, says, “The path to a passionate life is a complicated path. It’s not as easy as follow your passion.” His rule for making this happen: work hard to get good at something that is rare and valuable (become exceptional) and then use it as leverage, like a currency, to trade it for the traits that give you a remarkable life.

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Now is the time. In the words of Chris Brogan, a digital community specialist and blogger, “It is not who you say you are, it is what you do.” The idea that you have to research and know everything about something before you can get started is not necessary; it is our way of holding ourselves back. Instead, embrace your weirdness — “You will succeed the weirder you are.” When you do things, you defy the idea that you can’t.

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"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. That surrender, even the smallest act of giving up, stays with me. So when I feel like quitting, I ask myself, which would I rather live with?"

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"You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That’s the only thing you should be trying to control."

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