The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Well done is better than well said.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Who seeks shall find.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.