If you set your bar at 'amazing' it's awfully difficult to start. Your first paragraph, sketch, formula, sample or concept isn't going to be amazing. Your tenth one might not be either. Confronted with the gap between your vision of perfect and the reality of what you've created, the easiest path is no path. Shrug. Admit defeat. Hit delete. One more reason to follow someone else and wait for instructions. Of course, the only path to amazing runs directly through not-yet-amazing. But not-yet-amazing is a great place to start, because that's where you are.

Plans are great, but missions are better.

Teaching young people to sell is a priceless gift.

The market ... demands a signal from you that you're serious, powerful, accepted, and safe.

Conversations among the members of your marketplace happen whether you like it or not. Good marketing encourages the right sort of conversations.

If you're remarkable it's likely that some people won't like you.

Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.