Girl, Stop Apologizing: A Shame-Free Plan for Embracing and Achieving Your Goals (Girl, Wash Your Face)

No outside factor is going to make you more productive, and if you need a certain atmosphere to be at your best, you’re not truly in control of yourself.

What’s the one thing I could do right now, today, that would help me achieve all of this faster, easier, more efficiently?

What’s the one thing you could do right now, today, that would make everything else unnecessary?1

Your results list should be specific: “reach out to one hundred new prospective clients every day” or “close four new contracts every week” or “increase the average sale per existing customer by 3 percent to raise overall revenue numbers.”

There’s a big difference between faking something that you have no idea how to do and having the confidence to step into a role that you don’t have full training for yet.

Who you are is defined by the next decision you make, not the last one. So get planning, make your road map, and take the next step.

Remember, if everything is important then nothing is. If everything demands your attention, you’ll never have focus.

The spaces you inhabit can be the platform that you build a new life on, or they can be the anchor that keeps pulling you back under the waves.

You cannot earn your way to autonomy over your own life—it’s a human right you were granted when you became an adult.