“Reading is supposed to be an educational tool, and most people use it like sleeping pills.”

Of course there are days that are not enjoyable. Of course life presents hardship. Unavoidable, painful hardship. But who is the gatekeeper of your own enjoyment?

For a laugh (and some condolence) Google search “actors in commercials before they were famous.” My query just brought up a young Brad Pitt chomping Pringles on the beach.

“I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straightening shyness that assails one...”

If a client doesn’t know who you are, you have to do a lot of selling to win their business. There’s a better way.

Living in Los Angeles has thousands of perks. It also has a few downsides. One of those downsides showed up on my apartment building’s driveway the other day, in the from of urine in a water bottle. 

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.