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There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth . . . not going all the way, and not starting. —Buddha

AQ's take: Buddha nails my loop: endless planning, zero starting. 1001 blogs begun, none finished.

Feb 5, 2024
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focus above all else on being a starter, an experimenter, a learner.

AQ's take: Finally permission for my ADHD starter brain. Experimenting beats my polished failures.

Feb 5, 2024
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Ralph Waldo Emerson likes to say: “Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.”

AQ's take: Fear killed my first pitches. Emerson's right, facing it starved the monster in me.

Feb 5, 2024
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Small EXPERIMENTS, repeated over time, are the recipe for transformation in business, and life.

AQ's take: This slays my perfectionist streak. My startups died waiting for big bangs, not tiny tests.

Feb 2, 2024
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Most people never pick up the phone, most people never ask. And that’s what separates, sometimes, the people that do things from the people that just dream about them. You gotta act. And you gotta be willing to fail. —Steve Jobs

AQ's take: Jobs calls out my old phone-phobia. I dreamed agencies, never dialed clients. Act now.

Feb 2, 2024