1. Flexibility is a superpower! A flexible mindset offers us the entire field of all possibilities, and enables us to find unconventional solutions, making it easier to negotiate with others, and turn setbacks into opportunities.

2. Take It Personally! Never stop improving every single aspect of your life. Everything you’re good at today you sucked at in the past. That’s because you kept improving.

3. Remind yourself what truly matters to you. Then find that place deep inside where nothing is impossible and steer the ship from there. Not like alternative psychology, more like intelligent forethought.

4. Assess Your Strategy! Not budging from your tired old strategy suggests a blank vision of the future, and a weakness in leadership.

5.  Listen more…Opine less. 

6. Instead of New Years resolutions make daily ones. You already have a project, a goal, a mission, a plan, or an idea bouncing around between your ears. Commit to chipping away at that every day.

7. Just as a cinematographer’s subtle shift in camera angle can transform the entire tone and meaning of a scene, we too are often just one small adjustment away from altering our course and reshaping our future.

8. Give it back! Giving and receiving are different aspects of the same energy. And in our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep that energy circulating in our lives.

9. Don’t do anything foolish! You’re an artist, an entrepreneur, an independent, crazy, creative genius! I know it can be tough, however, it’s a GREAT life, and the only life for you! Don’t screw it up!

10. Happy New Year to my favorite people on earth!

Love, Michael