9) When you first do something, you don’t have to be able to articulate why you are doing it.

10) For an avid reader, reading can become a substitute for doing.

11) Promote yourself. It feels super-awkward, but do it anyway.

12) Doubts don’t help you; they only undermine you. So, radically, quit indulging in them.

13) When I don’t write in my journal, I don’t write at all.

14) Not writing for even a day leaves me depressed.