Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement.

Go a little easier on yourself, and in so doing, be prepared to make and do things that might seem silly at first. Just keep moving: don't ruminate and stare at the wall. Don't just play with your phone: go out and produce something.

Everything takes more time than you thought, everything costs more money than you thought, and almost everything turns out not quite as cool as you expected.

Email is such a funny thing. People hand you these single little messages that are no heavier than a river pebble. But it doesn't take long until you have acquired a pile of pebbles that's taller than you and heavier than you could ever hope to move, even if you wanted to do it over a few dozen trips. But for the person who took the time to hand you their pebble, it seems outrageous that you can't handle that one tiny thing.

A lot of the best work I've ever done started out as something completely different because I gave myself permission to have space around my time and expectations.

Make the time to be scared of more interesting things.

Although your time and attention are finite, the demands on your time and attention are infinite.