Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
You never know what motivates you.
I can, therefore I am.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Who seeks shall find.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Always desire to learn something useful.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Leap, and the net will appear.
So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.