If solid goals are established and the majority of time is spent manipulating systems toward those goals, great results will materialize naturally.

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Your Job Your task is to optimize one system after another, not careen through the day randomly taking care of whatever problems erupt. Your job is not to be a fire killer. Your job is to prevent fires.

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You don’t pine for the big break because it’s clear the big break is already occurring piece by piece, step by step

From “Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less”

Habit chains:

• Meditation – 150 days
• Journaling – 43 days
• Art – 36 days
• Chinese Calligraphy – Day 16
• Monetization – Day 10
• Writing – Day 1