Sit down with a pen and paper and start dreaming. If you could wave a magic wand to make everything go perfectly and get everything you want in the next five years, what would that look like? What would you have accomplished? Who would you be? What would it feel like? Put it all down. Even the silly stuff and the stuff you just know will never

First, identify the problem you need advice on. What is the current roadblock to your career that you could use some help on? Where are you stuck and feel like you’re making no progress? You have to have a specific problem you’re dealing with before you try to find help. Second, identify three potential mentors. I am a strong advocate against

I knew I wanted freedom. Not freedom to travel. I still don’t go many places. Not freedom to work whenever I wanted. I still work set hours during the day. I simply wanted the freedom to make those decisions myself. I wanted to live a life where nobody could make a claim on my time without my approval. I was also realizing I wanted to do something

I have since come to believe that the true definition of “procrastination” is “assuming I will be less stupid and lazy tomorrow than I am today.”

From day one, what amazed me about Dan was his constant assumption that there was probably a better way to do what he was doing. He seemed to step into every situation with a confidence to try something, but also realizing it was probably not the exact right thing. One time I asked him about this. “It’s all experiments, Tim. It’s not about me or my

“Failure is an event, not a person.”—Zig Ziglar

First, for simple tasks—things that have less than five steps to them—I just make a decision and do them the same way every time. My keys go in the same spot every single day. Even if I forget to put them in and find them in my pocket upstairs, I go back downstairs and put them in the silver dish. The simple task system extends to everything with

What if I started letting go a little bit and trusting what was inside of me without expecting a slap on the back or a check?

I built up a good toolbox of options to use whenever fear started holding me back. 1. I focused on creating for one person. 2. I promised myself to keep it a secret. 3. I wrote affirmations to combat specific fears about my character 4. I always kept my worry list close by.