If you are wiling to do something that might not work, you are closer to being an artist.
Great marketers don't make stuff. They make meaning.
In nearly every case, trying to lead everyone results in leading no one in particular.
Saying no to loud people gives you the resources to say yes to important opportunities.
If you're a marketer who doesn't know how to invent, design, influence, adapt, and ultimately discard products, then you're no longer a marketer. You're deadwood.
Your audacious life goals are fabulous. We're proud of you for having them. But it's possible that those goals are designed to distract you from the thing that's really frightening you--the shift in daily habits that would mean a re-invention of how you see yourself.