I want my life to have had more value than just acquiring stuff and living comfortably. I may die rich, or I may die broke. But I won’t die with my music still in me.
Risk the stuff. It’s worthless anyway. But don’t make the insane choice of sacrificing your happiness for stuff.
Spend time cultivating your deepest desires, no matter how impractical or impossible they seem. It’s perfectly OK to want the impossible. It’s not OK to pretend that your desires don’t matter.
If you try to impress an alarm clock, it will simply tell you the time.
Security is worthless if you have to sacrifice growth to get it.
Your beliefs about reality become your beliefs about yourself.
Courageous people are still afraid, but they don’t let the fear paralyze them.
The momentum of continuous action fuels motivation, while procrastination kills motivation.
If you want to express your creativity, then don’t choose a path where someone else tells you what to do and how to do it. Choose a path where creativity is rewarded, not punished.
Realize that you earn income by providing value – not time – so find a way to provide your best value to others, and charge a fair price for it.
When in doubt, act boldly, as if it were impossible to fail. In essence it is.
Curiosity is more flexible and practical than belief.
Your environment will eat your goals and plans for breakfast.
Using passion as your only fuel will no more assure you of success than being in love will ensure a successful long-term relationship.
Hard work pays off. When someone tells you otherwise, beware the sales pitch for something “fast and easy” that’s about to come next. The greater your capacity for hard work, the more rewards fall within your grasp. The deeper you can dig, the more treasure you can potentially find.
For good or ill, your habits will make or break you.
I got screwed over in some bad business deals, but as long as I focused on those past problems, I couldn’t move forward. I had to let all of that go and forgive everyone and everything first.
You must assume 100% responsibility for your financial life. If you’re going to improve your situation, you have to put the full burden of doing so squarely on your own shoulders. First and foremost, you must hold yourself responsible.
Achieving meaningful goals requires that you commit your entire ass, not just one cheek.
I realized that my bliss and my heartbreak both point in the same direction. I follow my joy and my heartbreak simultaneously because they’re two sides of the same coin.
You are too free and untamable to be labeled.