What am I doing right now that I should stop doing? What is something obvious that you think I don’t see? How can I be of help right now? If you ask these three questions consistently of people you trust, you are likely to get answers that surprise you.

Are you ever operating on the edge of your abilities? Where might you take a creative risk today?

If you are writing, be writing. If you are designing, be designing. If you are in a meeting with someone, focus solely on being with them at this moment. Train yourself to be fully and completely immersed in what you are doing at the moment, and it will become a habit. You will—over time—develop the muscle of complete and utter presence. In any

Apologies are for when you’ve genuinely wronged someone. And when you do, please apologize loudly. But don’t follow the compulsion to apologize for sharing your perspective. It’s part of your job as a pro to do so, and apologizing for it means that you are devaluing yourself, the person listening to you, the person who hired you, and the very space

You may be stagnant simply because you lack a place to begin. Having something in place to push against—even if it limits possibilities—can be beneficial to any project in the long run.

A scarcity mindset invades every area of life, and when I’m more concerned with protecting, I might lose my ability to recognize opportunities, or I may refuse to act on them because of what could be lost.

In what way do you need to be brave today? How can being brave today create change for you?

“If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating as possibility?” —Søren Kierkegaard

Because when you fixate on what’s happening right now, you begin to lose track of your vision. You funnel resources toward maintaining the status quo or simple survival, and you stop thinking about where you want to go. When this happens, you ignore or overlook opportunity. You get stuck in a moment you can’t get out of.