Success is not the result of an single quality; it's about alignment between who you are and where you choose to be. - Eric Barker

It all comes down to the stories you tell yourself.

We used to rely on the world to tell us when we were done, but now the balance must come from you.

Walker Smith of Yankelovich Partners told The Wall Street Journal, “Right now, there’s no aspiration to be middle class. Everyone wants to be at the top.” We probably have far more now than we ever had in the past, but we’re probably not much happier. And instinctively we think the problem can still be fixed by more. More money. More food. More things. Just more. We’re not even sure what we need more of, but whatever we have now sure as hell isn’t doing it, so turn it up to eleven, Bertha.