Focus on being productive instead of busy.

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.

The downstream effects are unknown. Do your best and hope for the best. If you're improving the world-however you define that-consider your job well done.

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.

Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don't create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market - define your customers - then find or develop a product for them.

Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear.