The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Always desire to learn something useful.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The alternative scene, for a couple years now, has been taken seriously and that's a cool thing. I don't think it's exploded or anything, but I think it's pretty cool that it still exists, it's still affecting people.