If you don’t have passion, you don’t have shit. If you’re not balls to the wall, stupid excited about what you’re doing, why are you doing it? The world doesn’t need another person going through the motions. The world doesn’t need another person making crap. The world doesn’t need someone else just doing shit and complaining until they die.

The world needs you alive.

The world needs you vibrant.

The world needs you on fire.

Now, that doesn’t mean that everything you do has to the be the most fun ever. I still empty the dishwasher and clean the bathroom. Neither of these tasks get me as amped as KBS. I do Tommy Burpees in my workouts, even though I hate them. If I only did what I was passionate about every day, it might be fun … for a day. But get this: we do the other stuff so we can do the good stuff. We do everything else so we can have those moments when we come really truly fully heart-stoppingly-is-this-a-fucking-dream alive.

But first, you have to have good shit. You have to know what that is for you. You have to be able to name at least one thing off the top of your head that makes you smile just to say the words, one thing that thrills you just by thinking about it, one thing that you do that makes the other 300 boring things okay.

You gotta have something … and you have to want to be damn good at it. You have to want excellence.

This is the way you make your life better.

If you don’t know what that one thing is, then you need to figure it out. And if you know what your passion is, don’t rest. Don’t ever rest. PR excellence.

For most people, the prize is the end result, the goal, the mythical place where all of our dreams become fulfilled and we are complete as a human being. Really? Then what? We win this prize, reach this “place” and then the work ends? It’s the path that precious, not the prize. The path goes on; teaches us about struggle and consistency and fortitude. Prizes symbolize an end game or completion. For me: I don’t want the work to end; I don’t want to be complete. I embrace the struggle and the path to greatness.

Always focus on your effort, instead of the results of that effort. If we always fixate on results, we miss the mark in terms of the real beauty and satisfaction that emanates from real effort. There is wisdom in this for sure. Place your emphasis on your effort and results happen without stress or goal fixation.

“The awakened sages call a person wise when all his undertakings are free from anxiety about results.” Have Goals, but put in effort for results.

Read good writing
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Think good thoughts
 
Hang out with smart stimulating people. Listen and ask a lot of questions.
 
See with your eyes wide open
 
Listen more, talk less
 
Challenge yourself mentally and physically each day
 
Experiment/Prototype try new stuff
 
Orient to action, but do one thing at a time
 
Connect and link seemingly unrelated area and concepts. Go far afield.
 
Slow down to move faster
 
HAVE FUN! Laugh a lot and don’t take yourself too seriously.