If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment - now and not later.

Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitate to get in the way if you're moving.

To make a bestseller, there are more customers than just your customers: Selling to the end-user is just one piece of the puzzle. In my case, I needed to first sell myself to the publisher to get marketing support and national retail distribution.

Most people are good at a handful of things and utterly miserable at most.

For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

Nothing can match the wonderment that comes from staring up into the star-filled canopy above and realizing that you are a part of that creation.