Don't fix me; Love me for what's broken.
There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.
How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading.
Acknowledge to yourself that the factory job is dead. Having a factory job is not a natural state. It wasn't at the heart of being human until very recently. We've been culturally brainwashed.
It's not an accident that successful people read more books.
Great marketers don't make stuff. They make meaning.