The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Never complain and never explain.
You never know what motivates you.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
When I tried to play something and screwed up, I'd hear some other note that would come into play. Then I started trying different things to find the beauty in it.
The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.