If you’re able to go through the exercise of upgrading your limiting factors to enabling factors, the benefit is two-fold and well-worth it: you get more effective operations and, perhaps most important, room to breathe and a renewed sense of sanity to ensure that you and your team are able to continue doing the work you believe in.

Sometimes you can be your own worst enemy when it comes to taking on challenges to foster growth.

It’s important to normalize the idea of discomfort — that isn’t to say that all forms of discomfort are good, but it remains true that it is only when we’re stretched beyond the limits we’re comfortable with that the adaptations for growth are able to occur.

Where you choose to spend your time greatly influences your ability to make long term progress towards your goals. 

A simple mindset to help you navigate through your most ambitious goals: think big, work small.

If you're a business, focus on how to earn your first $1, then $10, then $100 and so on.

If you're trying to write a novel, focus on writing the first page, then the second.

Envisioning lofty goals doesn't require you to figure out how you will get there.

Envisioning lofty goals in smaller units of progress does.

Inspired by John Cutler's writings on Think Big, Work Small: https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-452-think-big-work-small-part

Breaking things & accrued wisdom are huge but understated part of the creation process. It's not trial & error, it's trial & learning. Try things, break things, learn, repeat with greater wisdom, and in most cases you'll inch closer towards your goal.

This is the new paradigm: more minutes spent no longer guarantees that you will do better work. Learning to maximize EACH minute with focus & intention will.

How you experience the world is determined in large part by the stories you tell yourself about events have happened.

To have a healthy sense of optimism isn’t about hoping for a perfect world, it’s about resolving to be resilient in a decidedly imperfect one.