For all their bitching about what’s holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they’re being held from.

Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.

Focus on being productive instead of busy.

Be bold and don't worry about what people think. They don't do it that often anyway.

It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor. The choice is between multiplication of results using strenths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre. Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.

People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.

But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.