Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Always desire to learn something useful.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Leap, and the net will appear.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Well done is better than well said.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
I discovered that in a story I could safely dream any dream, hope any hope, go anywhere I pleased any time I pleased, fight any foe, win or lose, live or die. My stories created a safe experimental learning place.