“Travel and tell no one.
Live a true love story and tell no one.
Live happily and tell no one.
People ruin beautiful things.”
— Khalil Gibran
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Farnam Street, Tiny Thought, Discipline
If small changes create big results, then why is success so elusive?
The answer boils down to a single word: discipline. Not many people have consistent discipline when times are good. Even fewer in times of stress.
Anyone can do something once. Not everyone can do it consistently. Eating healthy for a meal is common. Eating healthy all week is not. Working out occasionally is common. Working out a few times a week is not. Going to bed on time is easy. Doing it for a week is not.
Positioning yourself for future success is simple but not easy. The hardest part is the discipline required to do otherwise ordinary things for an extraordinarily long period of time, even when the results are barely noticeable.
When people say you need to love the process, this is what they mean. Can you do it when it’s hard? Can you do it when other people stop? Can you work on something long enough to let it compound? Can you do it when the results aren’t visible?
Putting yourself in a position for success is simple. Doing it day in and day out is hard.
Extraordinary results come from ordinary people with uncommon consistency.
“Not everyone deserves to know the real you. Let them criticize who they think you are.”
— Unknown
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a big part of my zine-writing process is to write a bunch of 1200-word blog posts to figure out what’s even happening with the topic and then condense them into tiny adorable pages in the zine
—Julia Evans
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“You can be the ripest, juiciest peach in the world, and there’s still going to be somebody who hates peaches.”
— Dita Von Teese
“My wish for you is that you continue.
Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.”
— Maya Angelou
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“Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do them. Doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that - that’s what life is.”
— Amy Poehler
“You owe yourself the love you so freely give to others.”
- Unknown
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
— Thoreau
Reader:
Neil, as a budding writer, how do I find my demographic?
Gaiman:
You don’t. You write the things you want to write and put them out into the world and you let the people who would like it find you.
— Neil Gaiman
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