Someday Is Today

Acquire a white-noise machine of some kind and begin using it immediately.

He simply lost a quarter century of work.

We must accept this if we want to make something good. We must be willing to fail again and again and again in order to find our way to goodness and, sometimes, greatness.

We don’t juggle our passions. We engage with them, one at a time, over the course of time. We divide our interests and divide our time in pursuit of those interests, knowing that one may very well inform another.

The hardest thing is that with every passing day, I drift further and further from my dream. I’m actually a very good bank teller — already promoted to a customer service representative — and an outstanding restaurant manager, but I don’t want to be either of these things.

Rather than asking what someone does for a living, ask them this: “How did you end up in your current profession?” and “What was the hardest thing that you recently faced professionally?” Make these the questions you ask everyone you meet.

Believe that everything will work out, then go and work it out.

Even if a pessimist is proved correct in their doomsday prediction, the only advantage they will possess is the smug self-satisfaction that comes with being correct. But being smug and correct about negative outcomes is the goal of soulless ghouls, chronic complainers, jealous siblings, bullies, frenemies, and other varieties of awful people.

Sometimes your misfortune can lead to your success, as it did for Kahlo in the form of a near-fatal bus accident. When the world handed her lemons, she made legendary lemonade.