All motivation is self-motivation. Your family, your boss, or your co-workers can try to get your engine going, but until you decide what to accomplish, nothing will happen.

Choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.

Every great company, brand, career has been built in exactly the same way: bit by bit, step by step, little by little.

The reason you might choose to embrace the artist within you now is that this is the path to (cue the ironic music) security.

Set a goal, and in small, consistent steps, work to reach it. Get support from your peers when you start flagging. Repeat. You will change.

Everyone picks the best one when given a choice.

What I mean by art is the human act of doing something that connects us to someone else