We can get excited about an audacious and semi-ridiculous goal while remaining unattached if it doesn’t work out in the end.

The solution to productivity and ‘getting ahead’ is being engaged. Being engaged means being present with whatever’s in front of you.

If you keep doing something long enough, you cannot fail.

When we can just do one thing at a time, a funny thing happens. We start to enjoy the thing, no matter how mundane.

If our sense of passion is dependent on certain projects, professions, clients and conditions to be just right, guess what happens…? The search never ends.

Ever find yourself stuck on a really tricky decision? No matter how hard you try and think about the right move, you just can’t wrap your head around what the right decision is. I’ve been there many times.

I see that I am still here. Still alive.

I am here — this place where few venture: the quiet source of creative insight.

What is overwhelm?

It’s a word you hold in your head.

It is just a thought.

Maybe many of us have been misdirected over setting goals.

I want to put forward an idea that goes against my prior views quite considerably.

So take on one orange at a time. One task at a time. And find a way to enjoy it.

When I’m not productive, it creates a spiral of inaction. Seeing fewer results and wins reduces my motivation even further.

Goals are hard. Well, they’re hard because we look back over a year of forgotten goals — a goal graveyard.

If you’re not sick, you have it in you to add oxygen to that fire, even if it burns low today.

Do what you’re good at. Do what has the potential to thrill you, challenge you, and ideally do what will earn you a living, even if you can’t believe it can happen yet.

The more ideas, the more associations are made in my head and the more creative I get.