The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Never complain and never explain.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Who seeks shall find.
Wherever you are - be all there.
I always got great respect as a bass player.