Set up a life you don't need to escape from.

The first thing you do when you sit down at the computer: If you're an artist, a leader or someone seeking to make a difference, the first thing you do should be to lay tracks to accomplish your goals, not to hear how others have reacted/ responded/ insisted to what happened yesterday.

If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.

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

If you could do tomorrow over again, would you?

If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.

Just saying yes because you can't bear the short-term pain of saying no is not going to help you do the work.