Your mind will only allow you to create bad work for so long. Either it will force you to quit, or it will force you to make the work better. 

“I don’t think it has anything to do with the amount of work you are doing.”

When you look for a certain kind of car on the road, you start seeing it everywhere. This explains manifestation.

Clients don’t care if your creative concept or campaign idea is the best idea in the world.

Publishing this book has been a gratifying experience. Seeing people post pictures of it highlighted, bent up, or stained with coffee has brought me so much joy.

You know that feeling, right? When you incorporate a new productivity habit, you see everything you’re accomplishing, and you feel invincible?

When you get really good at something, you can fall into the delusion that good work doesn’t take much time. 

I’ve tried a lot of them—these are the tools that stuck for me.

If rich people can feel poor, and poor people can feel rich, this tells me that feeling rich is relative. It’s malleable. It all depends.

I’ve noticed one big difference between expensive service-based businesses, and cheaper product-based businesses.

Recently, I’ve been having trouble generating new ideas for my daily blog. 

Why do we need to be good at things in order to try? Why do we need to be good at things to enjoy them?

Every time I start cleaning, ever since I was 15 years old, I start humming a funny song called One Little Corner. It’s ostensibly a cleaning song for grown-ups. The accidental genius? It’s spot-on with habit research. 

I didn’t want to use pre-recorded loops for any of my songs. I wanted to create and record everything myself. If a machine did it, or if someone else did it, I wasn’t interested. 

Do you ever wonder how photographers and videographers with half your talent are booking jobs twice as big as yours? Hint: It’s because they know how to pitch. 

“We expend effort. We create value. It’s easy to get confused about which one we’re going to ultimately be compensated for.”

Just now, I took a walk around the block to clear my head. On my walk, I witnessed two men in an argument about the ethics of their businesses.

If it seems like someone has everything figured out, go look under their bed. If it looks like someone has their life all together, look at their inbox

There’s one downside about the idea of consistency that isn’t talked about enough. 

 Leads can be anyone who can “hook you up with an opportunity that might lead to a paycheck” according to Jane Friedman in her book The Business of Being a Writer.