1) You know you are in a toxic relationship if you have ever considered enhanced interrogation techniques to get your significant other to speak the truth.

2) Knowledge is really about building a foundational base camp so that by the time you reach the summit of your life, forks on the ascent or potholes are met with confidence.

3) I still do not understand what I have learned from this observation:

A very handsome man walks into a room

Men: “I need to get to the gym, work on my hair, and my suits.

A tall, beautiful woman walks into a room.

Women: “I need to grab my machete out of my Michael Kors handbag, chop off her appendages, and hide the body.”

I cannot wrap my mind around this. Why.

4) Blind allegiance and obedience to a relationship, corporation, or government? What happens when our own values and ethos conflict with institutions? I have never struggled to just say No!!!.

How do we manage? Stay, reject, or leave?

5) There is a difference between what you think, what you feel, and the truth.

Many times in life these do not line up

6) I am on the back nine of my career, looking at what I discovered, and changed in the practice of medicine, the odds of my accomplishments are one in a billion

7) it takes a lifetime of experience to develop insight and self-awareness, yet some people go to their grave never knowing who they are or their values.

8) There have been days in my life when I have walked through the door of my home, and joyful that I am still alive, it’s a triumph

9) Women in corporate leadership are visible, yet invisible ( take some time to think about this).

10) Failure in the early years of your life is the foundation of success in the later years of your life.