Figure out the people part and the technology gets a whole lot simpler.

If it were any other way, it would be easy. And if it were any other way, everyone would do it and your work would ultimately be devalued. The yin and yang are clear: without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely it would be worth the journey. Persist.

We know what you want to accomplish... The real question is, 'what are you willing to push through the dip for?' What are you willing to stand up for, bleed for, commit to and generally be unreasonable about? Because that's what's going to actually get done.

No one ever gets talker's block. No one wakes up in the morning, discovers he has nothing to say, and sits quietly, for days or weeks, until the muse hits, until the moment is right, until all the craziness in his life has died down.

Getting picked is fine if it happens to you. But it's not a plan. It's a version of waiting and hoping.

The problem with working with a coach isn't that we don't know what to do. The real problem is that we don't want to change our mind.

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