Ideas to keep handy
- Work with gusto.
- Happy but never satisfied.
- Don’t believe everything you think.
- Smooth seas don’t make great sailors.
- Making things is the best form of complaint.
- Fully committed yet unattached.
- Choose coming alive over getting ahead.
- Pursue challenges, not happiness.
- No hurry, no pause.
- Motion leads to direction.
- You can’t steer a stationary ship.
- Action increases luck.
- Short iterations equals rapid learning.
- Build with haste and rebuild without fear.
- There’s no speed limit.
- Clarity dissolves resistance.
- Simplicity is velocity.
- If it’s too hard, shrink the task.
- Before adding choices, remove one.
- Choose better over simply more.
- Decide based on one strong reason.
- Confidence grows from resisting falsification, not validation.
- Self-confidence = perceived ability - perceived standards.
- Identity is defined by yes, character by no, mastery by your chosen excellence.
- You are rewarded publicly for what you practice in private.
- Develop pace and taste. Cultivate speed with quality.
- Truth demands courage to be wrong and wisdom to learn from it.
- Failures are information-rich.
- Progress feels slow only if you expect instant results.
- Motivate by effort, not comparison.