If you have a why, almost any how can be overcome. Purpose gives suffering meaning, creates direction in the chaos and gives you a reason to keep moving when everything in you wants to quit. A powerful future vision pulls you forward.

Your attitude shapes your thoughts, your thoughts shape your actions and your actions shape your life and who you are. Every day, no matter what is happening around you, you are given one undeniable choice: how you will meet the world. Choose wisely.

The people around you will become the greatest source of your happiness, health and strength, or the greatest sources of stress, limitation and pain. The right people challenge you, encourage you and remind you who you are when you forget. Choose people who help you rise.

When life tries to break you, you have three choices: deny, despair or move. So do yourself and everybody around you a favor. Move.

When you move, even imperfectly, powerful biological and energetic changes begin to occur. Muscles release growth factors. The nervous system recalibrates. The immune system awakens. Emotion follows motion, and your body begins aligning itself with healing, strength and possibility. I promise you will feel better.

We have never had greater access to doctors, technologies, therapies and information than we do right now. Do not settle for assembly-line healthcare or become a passive participant in your own recovery. Ask questions. Explore options. Get 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th opionions. Become your own best advocate.

Your body is the most incredible healing and survival machine ever created. Much of chronic disease is connected to the cumulative effects of what we put in and on our bodies combined with the stress we carry. The good news is this: the body has an extraordinary capacity to heal when given the right conditions.

Exercise does far more than strengthen the body. It sharpens the mind, improves mood, stimulates brain growth, increases resilience and reminds you that you are capable of more than you think. Additionally, it brings your into contact with amazing people. Movement changes the brain, not just the muscles.

The Chinese call it Chi. In India it is known as Prana. In Japan, Reiki. Across cultures and throughout history, people have described a life force energy that flows through all living things. Some call it spirit. Some call it consciousness. Some call it God.

Whatever name you give it, there is a power greater than fear, greater than despair and greater than limitation. You are not separate from it. You are connected to it, and when you learn to quiet the noise, open your heart and align your life with something greater than yourself, extraordinary things can happen.