1- It is much easier to hear about someone else’s lies than to hear our own truths.

2-Allowing words to control you empowers others to control you.

3- To find your inner peace, find and conquer your inner demons.

4-You have mastered your life when your inner voice is louder than the negative external voices.

5- You will always have more enemies when you succeed than when you fail.

6- Many times in your life, the best decisions are the ones you don’t make.

7- We all have hard times. Some people have it more complicated than others or you.

8-If you want to be successful, befriend and spend time with people who are what you want to be.

9- A large part of my success was constructed on the back and shoulders of those that could not outwork me.

10-I have had an infinite amount of success in life, not because of high intelligence; I was gifted with an abundance of common sense.

1-Equity: everything that is expected of me; I expect from you.

2-Some of my closest friends have told me I am a complex man. What the fuck does that mean?

3- Ghetto is not a place. It’s an ideology.

4- Question advice from individuals on how to do your job when they haven’t done it.

5- The most straightforward understanding of being a leader? I can get the best out of people reporting to me by asking for the best of myself.

6-The worse lies are the lies you tell yourself.

7-The most courageous people are those that reveal themselves the truths they do not want to hear.

8-Suffering is a part of life; it’s not the purpose of life.

9-There will be many times in your life you will ask yourself, “how am I going to get through this situation”?

10- To grow, you must get past being comfortable with your life.

1-The more significant our crises, the more spiritual we become.

2-Control is an illusion; we cannot control many things.

3- We want to believe that everyday life is based on comfort, certainty, and stability; we are disappointed time and time again throughout our journey in life, as these are rare events.

4- Surviving adulthood is more about being comfortable in our seasons of disorientation.

5-The only way to be mentally and emotionally strong is to experience hardship and struggles and to not be believed; through relentless discipline, we become someone we never knew we were.

6- The war you can’t win is always worth fighting for.

7- Your success in life is based on how big your dreams are and how hard you want to work.

8- I have been so fatigued from the work experiences that I have difficulties separating reality from my dreams (yes, this has been a career-long challenge)

9-Letting people know you appreciate them is not a weakness; it’s a sign of strength.

10- I have had many struggles in my career, and during my life, I am not a victim; I am a survivor.

1. We rarely comprehend the facts we need to gather to make the best option while making life decisions.

2. Although American society combines all cultures and ethnicities, there are subcultures within each, and each subculture has its own values.

3. Individuals will fill voids in your life, provide you with challenges, accompany you through difficult times, and offer support. I value such people. Even though they may be in our lives briefly, the moment may only Be transient, once you have learned from them, you will be a better person than before you met.

4- Not reaching my full potential has been and still is my greatest fear in life.

5- I stopped believing life would be simple when I was very young.

6- You only have one life; don’t allow toxic people to rule it.

7- There are many different types of arrogance, but the most deadly is ignorance-based arrogance. We have all encountered people who appear confident on the surface but are actually fragile on the inside, and even the most minor words can devastate them. Arrogance with humility and resoluteness, beneath the shell packed with challenges and successfully conquering huge barriers are the most learned.

8- A wise man once chose not to speak.

9 – Getting used to hearing things you don’t want to hear leads to personal progress.

10-Failures frequently lead to opportunities.

1-The world is a far safer place because never in my life have I worn a pair of” skinny jeans.”

2- Apparently, I will interact daily with others who are always seeking an emotionally safe place? Does that even exist? Those that report to me and those I report to rarely seem anything but interested in an emotionally safe space.

3-There will be individuals in your work and personal life that will not like you for many superficial reasons and will make your life extraordinarily difficult; do they deserve your time and energy? Is it my problem or theirs? Who cares anyway?

4- Humanity has made extraordinary technological growth but little emotional development; we still fight wars and cannot resolve daily conflicts with civility.

5- People are so much more than the bad things that happen to them.

6- A large population of Americana has difficulty managing expectations and reality. My experiences in medicine have taught me expectations never meet reality, even for the ultra-successful. So I have become quite comfortable that many efforts I put daily into my craft will seldom get praised, so I live with gratitude for every obstacle I conquer in quiet humbleness.

7- I have reached unprecedented levels of national and international success; when I retrace my steps, I cannot verbalize how I got here; I resort to words of vigorous hard work. I could always outwork anyone and had the heart of an explorer.

8- The American culture has little patience and expectations; we want it now, and who cares about the future? I have an innate gift of patience and the ability to have a long-term vision.

9-The truth can be so painful to hear. It is much easier to accept our reality with denial.

10- What I do for a living is extraordinarily abstract to many people. I am constantly managing an imminent threat of death in a patient or managing a patient’s death and keeping them alive; unless you are in the room, you just don’t understand, and I am all right with that.

1-Silence can sometimes speak so many words it’s deafening.

2- It is much easier to make life decisions when you are not tired, hungry, sad, or angry.

3- Adversity builds character.

4- When spoken frequently enough, even if false, narratives become gospel.

5-The only way to rid yourself of self-doubt is to work hard to beat the self-doubts out of your mind.

6-Not all problems in life have a good ending or solution. Life is messy, and you may not have closure on everything that transpired.

7-Learning to force yourself to be in uncomfortable situations is a superpower. Pushing your physical, emotional, and mental limits is where you have the most significant and rewarding growth in life.

8-The person in the meeting who is always talking is not the most intelligent in the room; they have the most issues.

9- As I have more birthdays, I realize I don’t have much to say unless I am asked; great wisdom arises from silence and listening.

10- The thoughts in your mind determine your overall happiness with your life; You are in total control of your day-to-day happiness.

1-If you are afraid to offend others, you will never be able, to tell the truth.

2- Creating wealth has never been about how much you earn; it’s about how much you save and not spend and invest over time.

3- Leaving a toxic relationship shows resilience and courage, not a sign of weakness or meekness.

4- It takes a lifetime to finally accept who you are.

5- The best way to understand others is to listen to them.

6- Competence and confidence are interrelated. I have seen far too much confidence without competence.

7-We cannot fix past injustices with current injustices.

8- I am responsible for what I say, not what you understand.

9- Having a baby to “save the marriage “is not a strategy; it’s stupidity.

10- There are people I have met that you ask them the time, and they tell you how to build a fucking watch.

1- Tragedies are part of our human condition that bring opportunities for learning and wisdom or denials and ignorance.

2- I have developed a new definition for relationship: a state in which two individuals peacefully and respectfully interact through mutual compromise.

3- Societies have a major personality flaw we all carry within us; Judgement is always so much easier than understanding.

4- The most essential words in any relationship; I forgive you, I am sorry.

5- There have been many times in life’s situations that I may not say much, but I see everything. I have learned to become quite comfortable with the idea that there is “wisdom in silence”.

6- Sometimes things will work out in life, even when they may not seem fair.

7- There will be times in your life where your emotional pain will be your strength, leverage your past to create your future.

8- I have grown accepting and comfortable hearing things I don’t want to hear.

9- I no longer define the struggles of life as my difficulties; I define them as my resilience.

10- Not every comment on social media needs my response, will my comments in any way help the situation?

1. Just because you have the right ingredients for success in life, it doesn’t necessarily mean you know how to cook.

2. You never learn who you are, what you believe in, your values, inner strength, what you will stand for, and what you won’t stand for until you have struggled in life.

3. Most of us are so tied to the past harms that we cannot let go of our experiences to become the person we want to be in the future.

4. Having a strong work ethic is always in constant opposition to a rest ethic.

5. Even before I had children, I knew to never push my unfulfilled visions onto their dreams and aspirations. They need to find their own visions on their own terms.

6.The human existence requires us to be repeatedly exposed to bad situations so that we learn to avoid those very conditions that got us there

7. From the corporate world and my personal life I have learned that if your boss or a significant other does not listen to you they just don’t care about you

8. With wisdom in human interactions I have learned to see things that may not be visible and to hear things that are unsaid

9. I have served humanity by solving their heart problems. In life when I often hear complaints I always ask, “so what is the solution.” And then they shut up.

10. Anger is an emotion that can be a superpower. When used to motivate oneself superhuman goals can be accomplished. when we hold on to this emotion it can destroy us and those close to us. True growth can only come from harnessing anger for good and eventually let it go and move on.

1- We were all taught to believe that money talks; that was a lie, money yells!!

2- Far too many people in leadership positions fail to appreciate or understand the talent of those that report to them.

3-Art propagates the lessons of our civilization while governments keep us in ignorance.

4- The most common phrase I have heard in the American lexicon has been “toxic masculinity “; we have all met or dealt with a man with these traits. In a small circle of my friends, we discussed the importance of equality and used the phrase “toxic feminity.” This also needs to be clearly defined.

5-Nothing is more dangerous than a man that has nothing to lose.

6- Honesty of our friendship; I would rather you hate me for telling you the truth and become better than you love me for telling you a lie, and you stay the same and never change.

7- Based on what I have seen and heard, life can be beautiful and cruel. Both statements are correct based on my experiences in life. We choose how to see, listen, and respond daily to the world around us.

8- We are always and forever in our children’s eyes, remember to live for someone greater than yourself.

9- We place far too much weight at the alter of expert opinions,social media, and celebrity or famous sound bites. We need to go back to our basic beliefs of right and wrong we learned in our first decade of life.

10- We all want what we don’t have, few appreciate what we do have.