BRIAN WILLIAMS

Everything in your life exists because you first made a choice about something. Choice is at the center of all success and failure. It is what we choose that makes the biggest difference.

Too often we sleepwalk through our choices. We default to choices that our society an...

• Act quickly: Waiting a few hours, you may recall the facts, but you lose the nuance. And this makes all the difference in deciding what matters. (The tone/way one seemingly simple suggestions sparks others? The shadow of an idea in your mind? Write down fast!)

• Other people’s happiness is contagious: when we see the smile of someone to whom we’ve just given a gift, we too feel happy. This deepens our connection with that person.

• Donating your money to others is that it also makes you more motivated at work, as you know you’re ...