No niche is too small if it's yours.

You can use social media to turn strangers into friends, friends into customers and customers into salespeople.

Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.

Your peer group are people with similar dreams, goals and worldviews. They are people who will push you in exchange for being pushed, who will raise the bar and tell you the truth. They're not in your business, but they're in your shoes. Finding a peer group and working with them, intentionally and on a regular schedule, might be the single biggest boost your career can experience.

Understanding the mythology of your partner, your customer and your audience is far more important than watching the instant replay of what actually happened.

What we most need in our lives, though, is something worth doing, worth it because we care.

Go ahead and act as if your decisions are temporary. Because they are. Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work. No sweat, no need to hyperventilate.