You succeed because you've chosen to be confident. It's not really useful to require yourself to be successful before you're able to become confident.

Repeating easy tasks again and again gets you not very far. Attacking only steep cliffs where no progress is made isn’t particularly effective either. No, the best path is an endless series of difficult (but achievable) hills.

Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.

Fitting in is a short-term strategy that gets you nowhere. Standing out is a long-term strategy that takes guts and produces results.

The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized for it. Afraid to be misunderstood, to be accused of saying what they didn't mean, because they might be criticized for it.

Without people pushing against your quest to do something worth talking about, it's unlikely to be worth the journey. Persist.

Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.