Your hands are not made to type out memos. Or put paper through fax machines. Or hold a phone up while you talk to people you dislike. 100 years from now your hands will rot like dust in your grave. You have to make wonderful use of those hands now. Kiss your hands so they can make magic.

Life is too long to reject the opportunities in front of you every day.

Life is better when your sinuses are clean, when your arteries are clean, and when your digestive tract is clean.

When we die our entire legacy is simply the added together strengths of all the connections we make with others. This is the ghost of ourselves we leave behind. This is showing up.

My feeling, based on my own experience, is that aiming for grandiosity is the fastest route to failure.

Your bosses simply hate you. You created more and more value. They paid you less and less. That's the definition of disdain in my book.

Don't sweat it if you are stuck in the corporate job right now. But begin to plan ahead. I know from much personal experience that it takes 1-3 years to transition from total scratch to making a living from home in any career you want.