How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

But the main truth is that blogging charges me up. It gets me going. I don’t need another reason.

I can’t imagine the process of affirmations—if it works at all—is sensitive to the little details. I think a deep and consistent focus on what you want is all that is required.

Few of these wishful people have decided to have any of the things they wish for. It’s a key difference, for once you decide, you take action.

I’ll always eat what is most convenient during the day, and if the only easy options are healthy, laziness takes me in the best direction.

Can insanity help you? The answer is yes, but you want to use a calculated, emotional type of insanity. In any kind of negotiation, the worst thing you can do is act reasonable. Reasonable people generally cave in to irrational people because it seems like the path of least resistance.

Focus on your diet first and get that right so you have enough energy to want to exercise. Exercise will further improve your energy, and that in turn will make you more productive, more creative, more positive, more socially desirable, and more able to handle life’s little bumps.

My attitude was always the same: Escape from my cell, free the other inmates, shoot the warden, and burn down the prison.

Systems have no deadlines,

we all know that money distorts truth like a hippo in a thong.