The key is to have fun with it. Or else you don’t do it. People avoid things that are not fun.

We spend years building a garden. We plant the seeds. We tend the soil. We water the plants. But we are also the sun. The sun shines no matter what. It doesn’t care which flower blossoms. The sun is always there providing value every second of the day. Be the sun and you will create abundance.

ideas are the most valuable currency of our time. Nothing else.

How Do I Execute My Ideas? Here’s what I do often when I am writing down ideas that I think I might want to act on: I divide my paper into two columns. In one column is the list of ideas. In the other column is the list of “First Steps”—only the first step, because you have no idea where that first step will take you.

I think we’re meant to often feel lonely and scared. It allows us to recalibrate where we are and ask the important question, is this what I’m supposed to be doing right now? When I am filled with fear is exactly the time when I want my idea muscle humming, when I must write those ten ideas a day down and become an Idea Machine.

There’s no such thing as instant health. There’s only such thing as practice and progress. All you have to do is check the box on progress. Progress compounds every day into enormous abundance.

Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Atlantic Airlines, is an Idea Machine. And he provides one of my favorite examples of taking a critical first step. Branson didn’t like the service on some airline he was flying. So he had an idea: “I’m going to start a new airline.” But how the heck can a magazine publisher start an airline from scratch with

The old way of doing things is to not try. To think that the best course of action is to climb the corporate ladder and hope, hope, and hope that the ladder is not crooked or broken or that there isn’t someone at the top that’s about to throw the ladder off the building. The new way of doing things, the red pill, is to jump into the abyss. To try a

If I say, “write down ten ideas for books you can write,” I bet you can easily write down four or five. I can write down four or five right now. But at six it starts to get hard. “Hmmm,” you think, “what else can I come up with?” This is when the brain is sweating. It’s like when you exercise in the gym and your muscles don’t start to build until y