Be happy wherever you are, with whatever you’ve got, but always hungry for the thrill of creating art, of being missed if you’re gone and most of all, doing important work.
Seth Godin
Fear is the dream killer, the silent voice that pushes us to lose our passion in a vain attempt to seek safety. While you can work hard to dream smaller dreams, I think it’s better to embrace the fear and find bigger goals instead.
Seth Godin
It’s obviously not about access to capital (doing it right doesn’t cost more). It’s about caring enough to make an effort.
Seth Godin, on doing things the right way

Create First, Then Consume

Seth Godin had a short post about this yesterday and it made so much sense. We tend to consume in the morning, checking emails, Twitter, RSS feeds. He posed the question, though, why do people consume during the time when the mind is fresh? Instead, one should be creating, writing, fixing - I should be contributing something as opposed to simply absorbing.

So, a new personal goal is to contribute something in the morning when I’m fresh.

Worrying is not a useful output. Worrying doesn’t change outcomes. Worrying ruins your day. Worrying distracts you from the work at hand. You may have fooled yourself into thinking that it’s useful or unavoidable, but it’s not. Now you’ve got one more thing to worry about.
Seth Godin