The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Know or listen to those who know.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Never complain and never explain.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
You never know what motivates you.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Always desire to learn something useful.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Leap, and the net will appear.
I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.