•  A stop-loss order is an order placed with a broker to buy or sell a stock once that stock reaches a certain price to limit an investor’s loss (setting a stop-loss for 10% lower than the price at which you bought the stock will limit any losses to 10%).
• The same is true of troubles – spend time to ask just how much anxiety or damage to your health is a problem actually worth to you.
• When you hit those parameters, unload the problem to help mitigate the losses to you personally.
• Most people needlessly hang on to troubles that would be better off dismissed.

• Celebrate the friend you see in your mirror – the person who is compassionate, cares, never gives up and is dependable and trustworthy, someone safe and always accepting.
• Looking elsewhere for what you want is virtually an impossible task.
• The more you work on and appreciate yourself, the more others are attracted to you for all the right reasons.

• It strikes me that life is a lot like Scrabble.
• Every once in a while, it pays to dump all your unusable letters and start over.
• Dumping troubles that have plagued you and sopped up energy allows for a rebuild not just a work around.
• The best question ever on worry is what price are you willing to pay to hang on to your worries.

• As a radio program director, I always advised my airstaff to constantly be in forward motion – that is, when a song is over move on to what’s next because it creates momentum and anticipation.
• You don’t go back to generate enthusiasm, you go forward which has strong applications in other areas of life.
• Living in the present is a proven formula to be happy and looking forward is the chief way to plan ahead.

• It’s rarely what you say or how likeable you are that wins new friends.
• It’s the way they make you feel about yourself.
• Listening to others and asking questions (not talking about yourself) is the first step in making people feel good in your presence.

If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.
— Dolly Parton

• Without one word spoken, a smile can make your inner power grow. 
• The ability to smile almost always elicits a positive reaction in return (and yes, it works with a mask on because your eyes tell the story of approval and acceptance). 
• You’ve given yourself a gift as well – smiling at others upgrades your mood instantly.

• One of my favorite authors is Amit Sood, MD, the former Mayo Clinic professor of medicine who wrote a guide to stress-free living
• “When you stop judging others, you feel better about yourself and less judged by them.”
• “Ask yourself: Is it really wrong? None of the 88 keys in a piano is wrong. Each key plays a unique tone that sounds perfect if played well and in the right place within the concerto.  Within limits, try to see others’ behaviors as different tones.”
• “A tone that doesn’t sound right in your song isn’t a bad tone. Perhaps you didn’t play it well or it doesn’t fit in your music.”

• My NYU students and I have a deal – they turn their phones and devices off during each one hour and forty-minute class to focus on discussions and I allow them to leave the room (without dirty looks or any form of chastisement) to check their messages if they like during class.
• The majority stay seated, perhaps 20% at most check their phones or use the bathrooms.
• And when I asked them this past week how difficult it is to sit there and not look at their phones, the typical response was they liked it.
• People know too much connectivity breeds distraction so the way to win the battle is to make phone use a win-win.

• Take all the successes of the past week – great and small, throw in some winners from the past month and year and replay them over and over instead of rerunning everything you perceived (or others have told you) you are doing wrong.
• If you don’t think this is possible, it is exactly what most of us do with our faults.
• We have no problem knowing what they are and yet we make them the soundtrack of our inner thoughts.
• Eliminate the negatives, accentuate the positives.
• If you have trouble, put your victories on your phone or digital device and scroll through them as a reminder that you have confidence in reserve.

• Many people are more concerned with being liked by others and one reason for this is the proliferation of social media which emphasizes “friends’, “likes” and “follows”.
• Being liked by others starts with liking yourself – if you can’t like you, how can you ask someone else to?
• And there’s always lots to like because we’re not just made up of faults and inadequacies pointed out by others, we’ve got our strengths and we should at least give them equal time in our mind.
• Act like the person you want to become and others will stand in admiration.