• all the paid and non-paid jobs I have had from chores at home to tax-paying positions,
• continuing support from family and friends,
• motivating and inspiring words from a college counselor, Toni Torres, in the early ’80s,
• being aware of a series of mini-epiphanies that led to my 1994 epiphany,
• honoring my friend Jengyee Liang, author of “Hello Real World!”,
• an encouraging conversation with stupidicus (to my moronicus) as cubealabras emerged,
• commuting telephone conversations with mentors and friends,
• performing improvisation,
• learning about querencia through the former Servant Leadership Academy led by the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership,
• completing BJ Fogg’s Persuasion Boot Camp (no called Behavior Design Boot Camp)… and
• future learnings!

Since then …

• the Global Niche community founded by Anastasia and Tara
  
• David Ngo, creator of Stanford’s first Behavior Design major program and proponent of meditation