It always feels too soon to leap. But you have to. Because that’s the moment between you and remarkable.
Content marketing is the only marketing left.
Just start. Start now. Fail often. Enjoy the ride.
If you’re different somehow and have made yourself unique, people will find you and pay you more.
If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do, they will find someone cheaper than you to do it. And yet our schools are churning out kids who are stuck looking for jobs where the boss tells them exactly what to do.
The rest of the world isn’t nearly as important as the few who are here.
We live in a vague world. And it gets vaguer all the time. In this environment, the power of the specific, measurable and useful promise made and kept is difficult to overstate.
It’s entirely possible that there won’t be a standing ovation at the end of your journey. That’s okay. At least you lived.
Sharing an idea you care about is a generous way to change your world for the better.
Somewhere in the world, someone is doing something that you decided couldn’t be done.
Successful people fail often, and, worth noting, learn more from that failure than everyone else.
The opportunity is not in being momentarily popular with the anonymous masses. It’s in being missed when you’re gone, in doing work that matters to the tribe you choose.
The joy of art is particularly sweet, though, because it carries with it the threat of rejection, of failure, and of missed connections. It’s precisely the high-wire act of “this might not work” that makes original art worth doing.
Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety.
Courage doesn’t always involve physical heroism in the face of death. It doesn’t always require giant leaps worthy of celebration. Sometimes, courage is the willingness to speak the truth about what you see and to own what you say.
When you put your ideas in the world, then, and only then, do you know if they’re real.
Don’t create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.
Great work is always shunned at first.
Competition and the market are like water, they go where they want.
When you walk around braced for impact, you’re dramatically decreasing your chances. Your chances to avoid the outcome you fear, your chances to make a difference, and your chances to breathe and connect.