Instant Success Are Seldom Instant

When You're A Good Person, Good Things Happen To You. You Shouldn't Be A Good Person With The Expectation Of Therefore Deserving Good Things, But In Its Purest Form, I Believe When You Do Good, Good Comes Back To You.

Ideas Are Easy. Implementation Is Hard.

Klout And Various Measurements Of Influence Are Fun. I Love To See Where I Score On Them, But There's A Computer Algorithm Behind The Calculation. If There's An Algorithm, It Can Be Gamed. Even If It's Not Gameable, You Have To Take A Leap Of Faith That The Number Of Followers, Retweets, Mentions, Whatever Really Mean Something.

Money Is Not The Sole Or Most Powerful Motivation For Many People. A Higher And Tougher Test Is To Look Back And See How You've Made The World A Better Place.

Do Not Write To Impress Others. Authors Who Write To Impress People Have Difficulty Remaining True To Themselves. A Better Path Is To Write What Pleases You And Pray That There Are Others Like You. Your First And Most Important Reader Is You. If You Write A Book That Pleases You, At Least You Know One Person Will Like It.