If you're going to invest a valuable asset (like time), go ahead and make it productive. Use a postit or two, or some index cards or a highlighter. Not to write down stuff so you can forget it later, but to create marching orders. It's simple: if three weeks go by and you haven't taken action on what you've written down, you wasted your time.

The object isn't to be perfect. The goal isn't to hold back until you've created something beyond reproach. I believe the opposite is true. Our birthright is to fail and to fail often, but to fail in search of something bigger than we can imagine. To do anything else is to waste it all.

Permission marketing turns strangers into friends and friends into loyal customers. It's not just about entertainment - it's about education. Permission marketing is curriculum marketing.

Busy does not equal important. Measured doesn't mean mattered.

Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.

Competition validates you. It creates a category. It permits the sale to be this or that, not yes or no.

Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.