Stephen Aaron Shepard

If you don't care about something. If you don't have a strong reason to improve at it, and then you judge yourself because you are not good at it, you will never have self-esteem.

You have to have a reason to improve at something, otherwise it will not be worth the effort, and hence your mind and body would refuse to make you get better at it.

Stop judging yourself, for being bad at things you don't care about. How are you going to get any better, if you don't like it enough to keep practicing it, until you hit a decent level of competency at it?

Stop crying over your mistakes. You are here to live and do more, not walk on eggshells and avoid making mistakes. Keep making progress, no matter what.

Make a ton of progress at one time when you feel like it, so that you can have the luxury of taking as much time afterwards for resting and having fun without that having a negative impact on how much you are moving forward in the long-term.

You must act as if you have all the time in the world, or else you'll never have time. And you will never live, or make progress.

Making slow, small, even tiny little progress, consistently on a regular basis, regardless of the quantity, amount, or quality, will always be more than enough. It's not about getting somewhere because of that. It's about consistently and continuously making progress, on a regular basis, no matter the outcome. This fixes your mental health, sharpens your abilities, and keeps you in shape, enough to make the big moves, that actually make the big changes happen.

You will never succeed, as long as you think you don't matter. You're not important, even if that allows you to enjoy life more, because you don't care, or you don't give a damn anymore.

You must think to yourself, I wanna succeed at the highest level, in order to attain the bare minimum.

There's no formula for success. There's only, success.

If you've tried everything, and still didn't get any results, it's not because nothing works. It's because you didn't succeed. It's because you haven't attained success, yet. It's because you didn't make it this time. Only getting to your objective, makes a difference.

Only the outcome, makes you successful.

There's no formula for success. There are only solutions to current problems, struggles, and needs. There are only things that make a difference. Otherwise, nothing whatsoever will ever change. No matter what you do, or how hard you try, even if you did everything right.

You still didn't attain or reach the intended outcome. That's why you failed. It has nothing to do with your strategy, or what you did in order to get there. It has nothing to do with the formula or method that you chose to follow or implement, in order to succeed.

It just did not happen.

Then what should we do about it? Give up because nothing ever works?

No. The solution is to make it happen, by any means necessary.

You need to follow your impulses more. Lack of following your impulses is behind a lot of your struggles and pent up negative energy, lack of normal functioning and capability, and failure in life.

There's a fine line between being hyper productive and creative, and being reckless and self sabotaging.

Learn it well.

It's the cure for burnout.

Not working on everything I need to work on to fix my life, get to my goals, or make my life or anything better, all at the same time, instead of attack one goal only at a time, and never touching any other goal whatsoever, until I complete the first one, could be the biggest mistake of my whole life.

You have a phobia of fatigue.

You think, I'm too tired to do this. So, I'm not going to do it, even if you want to.

You say, if I do this, it will drain my energy, and I'll end up exhausted, even when you're well rested. And so, you don't do it.

And that's why you never get anything done.

Unless you fall in love with working on what you're passionate about, and what truly matters to you according to your core values, you will never succeed.

Pick one of your goals, and work on it, until completion.

Just make progress in one of your current goals.

It doesn't matter what goal you pick in particular right now or these days to work on.

What matters is that you pick one, and work on it, like there's no tomorrow, until you make substantial progress in it, and then you can pick another goal or thing to work on.

It doesn't have to follow a certain way or method of success that you know, have seen before, or are aware of. It just has to work. You just have to succeed, regardless of how, regardless of the method. 

The method is that there is no method.

You just have to make it, against all odds, by any means necessary.