The solution to productivity and ‘getting ahead’ is being engaged. Being engaged means being present with whatever’s in front of you.

When we can just do one thing at a time, a funny thing happens. We start to enjoy the thing, no matter how mundane.

If our sense of passion is dependent on certain projects, professions, clients and conditions to be just right, guess what happens…? The search never ends.

Ever find yourself stuck on a really tricky decision? No matter how hard you try and think about the right move, you just can’t wrap your head around what the right decision is. I’ve been there many times.

I see that I am still here. Still alive.

I am here — this place where few venture: the quiet source of creative insight.

One minute is all you need. A minute to create space in thought, allowing strange and colourful insights to emerge.

We don’t need to take things seriously.

Thoughts are personal. Personal is serious.

And we have the choice to let thoughts go.

We have the choice to be happy; to have fun; to be light, right now.

We can put a lot of pressure on ourselves to be or act in a certain way.

I know I have.

And it is one of our most significant sources of unnecessary misery.

It keeps us guarded, hesitant, reticent, fearful and frustrated.

If you’re not sick, you have it in you to add oxygen to that fire, even if it burns low today.

You have a beautiful product that will improve the quality of someone’s life.

Traction is when more and more people buy your products, and tell others about it enthusiastically.

Productivity will flow from PLAY.

I love how social media limits my creativity to a single square. It gets me to think hard about what makes an impact, how people can be helped without meaningless words, and what LOOKS good for people to click.

I give up when my failure stares right back at me telling me that I have wasted my time.

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