The more clear you are about what you want, the more motivated and determined you will be to accomplish it.
Your customer is anyone who depends on you, or who you depend on for success.
You have to put in many, many, many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.
Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.
If there is no cure, you must endure.
You cannot eat every tadpole and frog in the pond, but you can eat the biggest and ugliest one, and that will be enough, at least for the time being.