You shape your perceptions, or someone shapes them for you. You do what you want to do, or you respond to someone else’s plan for you. - Tony Robbins

Although we’d like to believe it’s our intellect that really drives us, in most cases our emotions — the sensations that we link to our thoughts — are what truly drive us.

Over the years, gold has been considered the ultimate safe haven for many people, a staple of their Security Bucket, and conventional wisdom said it would only go up in value during uncertain times.

Yet a closer look shows that the greatest gift that extraordinarily successful people have over the average person is their ability to get themselves to take action.