By making and keeping promises to ourselves and to others, little by little we increase our strength until our ability to act is more powerful than any of the forces that act upon us.

The changes clearly strengthened the company in just about every respect. And, unlike the folks at, say, Amazon.com, the Stones built their online business while maintaining average gross margins of 32 percent.

When faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

Do not go on His errands till first you have sat at His feet.

This Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop is at the core of the Lean Startup model. Instead, we need to focus our energies on minimizing the total time through this feedback loop.

You Must Routinize The Right Habits

The more you are living a committed life well, the more joy will be your steady state, the frame of mind you carry around with you and shine on others. You will become a joyful person.

Christian meditation, very simply, is the ability to hear God’s voice and obey his word.

Phony deadlines. People don’t believe in arbitrary deadlines dates anymore. It cannot be considered as an enjoyable challenge.

These three views of life are as follows: first, embracing the individual, or the animal view of life; second, embracing the society, or the pagan view of life; third, embracing the whole world, or the divine view of life.