The best time to start promoting your book is three years before it comes out. Three years to build a reputation, build a permission asset, build a blog, build a following, build credibility and build the connections you'll need later.

The one path that never works is the most common one: doing nothing at all.

We're going to spend our entire future living in tomorrow-investing now, when it's difficult, is the single best moment.

People get good gigs because they stand up....You don't get picked. Reject the tyranny of picked. Pick yourself.

If failure isn't an option, then success isn't either. Success is just failure repeated until it works.

We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again.

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance. Tell yourself enough vivid stories about the worst possible outcome of your work and you'll soon come to believe them. Worry is not preparation, and anxiety doesn't make you better.