Change can either challenge or threaten us. Your beliefs pave your way to success or block you.

Rather than denying problems, focus inventively, intentionally on what solutions might look or feel like. . . . Our mind is meant to generate ideas that help us escape circumstantial traps -- if we trust it to do so.

You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered, unfulfilled life is to accommodate self-defeating feelings while undercutting your finest, most productive ones.

Life's up and downs provide windows of opportunity to determine your values and goals. Think of using all obstacles as stepping stones to build the life you want.

To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.