On my 35th birthday, 35 lessons on leadership, life, and business.

#15 The goal is not to retire; the goal is to feel free, light, and happy.

1/ Life and business are infinite games. The objective is not to win, but to keep playing and perpetuating the game.

2/ Leading well means maintaining a non-anxious presence in an anxious environment.

3/ It’s difficult to reach greatness in one’s public life. It’s more difficult to reach greatness in one’s private life. It’s exceptionally hard to do both and few do.

4/ Greatness in one’s private life is often kept private. Therefore the most successful people in history are generally unknown.

5/ Binary thinking is self-sabotaging. You’ll miss out on so many things.

6/ Leading well is not possible when you’re not well.

7/ The most rewarding things in life are the most difficult. The most difficult thing in life is to change and to do it as regularly as is necessary.

8/ It’s one thing to have an idea, it’s another to describe it, it’s a whole other thing to do it, and still more to live it consistently.

9/ Why is this happening to me? < What is this teaching me?