Whatever you do, don’t wait to start those dreams.

It all starts with a tiny, stupid idea, then one thing leads to another, and suddenly, you find something amazing: yourself.

It’s called entrepreneurSHIP, not entrepreneurSTAY. Don’t wait. Just ship.

There is power born of humility . . . Humility, in business and in life, is a powerful asset and does not denote lowliness, unimportance, or self-deprecation.

The willingness to be a champion for stupid ideas is the key to greater creativity, innovation, fulfillment, inspiration, motivation and success.

Overcome the prideful need to measure your worth by how much more successful you are than others, by operating from a core belief grounded in abundance.

Dreams don’t get done until they are due.

Procrastination threatens to rob us of those things that are most important in our lives.

if you begin, you win.

You can overcome your circumstances or you can let your circumstances overcome you.

Fear is the freaky troll under the bridge that leads to achievement.

No more tomorrows. Today is the day.

Accepting that life is insane, that bad things happen to good people and that you can find the courage to be grateful for the good in every situation and still move forward is hard (even...

Sadly, retirement planning, in many circumstances, has become nothing more than planned procrastination.

Simplicity is complex. It’s never simple to keep things simple. Simple solutions require the most advanced thinking.

The key ingredient in engaging the power available from service is motive.

You can’t let fear and indecision sink your creativity—they do not easily release their hold.

Stupid is the New Smart.

Urgency means paying the details the attention they deserve, with the respect they deserve, without delay.

Confusion, when embraced, is the starting point for discovery, direction and decision.

If you can dream it up, you can team it up.

Your life should consist of more than commuting, working, eating, surfing the Internet, sleeping and watching TV. Your life should be filled with purpose-driven experiences and projects that bring excitement, passion, energy, and authentic meaning...

It’s not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it’s the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat.

Don’t wait. Start stuff.

Live to start your stupid ideas, and start to live a life without regret–a life filled with meaning, freedom, happiness, fun, authenticity, and influence.

Try it out yourself. Test your idea with an experimental project. See what works and what doesn’t. Then move forward or move on.

If you can dream it up. You can team it up.

Mission matching: an ask that creates synergistic congruence (aka win-win) between missions.

If high aspirations = high fear, overcoming high fear = achieving high aspirations.

The way to be irreplaceable is to become a social innovator. Start projects that motivate you to save the world and simultaneously make you money (and create mindshare) for your company. Social innovation makes magic...

If time were to take on human form, would she be your taskmaster or freedom fighter?

If you want to trust yourself, make decisions that aregrounded in your authentic principles. Don’t lie. Don’tcheat. Don’t push others down to obtain success.

You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority.

Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could travel into the future, see where you messed up, and then go back in time to rearrange things in order to make your future better? You can. If...

Creativity is at the heart of every stupid idea . . . creativity and stupid are interchangeable . . . because everything inherent to that kind of creativity requires breaking away from the norm, going...

When it comes to getting a job or client, congruent value is aligning the employer’s need with your value add.

Don’t wait to be compelled to do great work.

Truly being authentic is knowing what matters to you, on the deepest level of who you are, and committing always to act from that authentic center.

You don’t feel like your best self when you fall apart, but you have to fall apart to become your best self.

Life experience is the new work experience.

Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others’ choices make us.

Gavin’s Law: Live to start. Start to live.

Trust. And be trusted.

When we leverage, we aggregate and organize existing resources to achieve success.

To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.

You have to dig a well before you can draw water from it.

Like creating a masterpiece, quitting is an art: you have to decide what to keep within the frame and what to keep out.

Say no to everything, so you can say yes to the one thing.

It’s not about how smart you are–it’s about capturing minds.

Life is too short not to start something stupid.