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  • Excellence

    No matter what you do. Do it the best way you can—or not at all. If you want to reach your full potential, that’s the quickest route. It’s also the hardest.

  • Busy is a Decision

    You don’t find the time to do things, you make the time to do things.

  • Gary Vaynerchuk on Motivation

    People love the feeling of being motivated. They don’t like putting in the work to do something about the feeling.

  • Unqualified

    Every great developer you know got there by solving problems they were unqualified to solve until they actually did it.

  • Success

    Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

  • The Feeling of Insecurity

    … the desire for security and the feeling of insecurity are the same thing. To hold your breath is to lose your breath. A society based on the quest for security is nothing but a breath-retention contest in which everyone is as taut as a drum and as purple as a beet. Alan Watts

  • Always Learning

    I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

  • Circumstances

    ‎Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

  • Procrastination

    Procrastination is what happens when you temporarily forget who you are, what you should pay attention to and what your options are for doing something about it. – Merlin Mann

  • The minimalists distraction

    The removal of distraction can very quickly become its own distraction – Merlin Mann