Painful as it may be a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning.

I think national issues play into gubernatorial races less than obviously in Senate and Congressional races. Much less. They tend to be more decided by personality leadership qualities and by state or local issues. They still have some effect no question about it but not as much as Senate and Congressional races.

Presidential leadership needn't always cost money. Look for low- and no-cost options. They can be surprisingly effective.

Charlatanism of some degree is indispensable to effective leadership.

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline carrying it out.

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life with its dynamic currents passing through your being is another.

It becomes a giant's task to compute the result when the effect of cross seas wind at all angles and ever varying force arched surfaces head resistance ratio of weight to area and the intelligence of the guiding power crop up.