Paul Millerd Quotes

There's so much more to who you are than you know right now. You are, indeed, something mysterious and someone magnificent. You hold within you – secreted for safekeeping in your heart – a great gift for this world. Although you might sometimes feel like a cog in a huge machine, that you don't really matter in the great scheme of things, the truth is that you are fully eligible for a meaningful life, a mystical life, a life of the greatest fulfillment and service.

that most people, including myself, have a deep desire to work on things that matter to them and bring forth what is inside them.

rejecting the default path should be a phase

2-3 years max, you almost certainly have to go through this phase, being against your former self

in some ways this is defending you from going back, bootstrapped confidence

but its not a good stance long-term

Find a life you love and then do as much of the things you enjoy as possible

do or do less, there is no try

Every post is an offer

committing to writing a book is easy

you just have to be a little bit insane, financially reckless, and married to the right person

You don’t need grit to live a full life

my toxic trait is thinking i can fix every hustle bro and turn them into a poet

Enough is knowing that no amount in my bank account will ever satisfy my deepest fears. It's knowing that I have enough friends that would gladly open their door and share a meal if I was ever in need. It's the feeling that I've been able to spend my time over an extended stretch of time working on projects that are meaningful to me, helping people with a spirit of generosity, and having enough space and time in my life to stay energized to keep doing this over the long‑term. Enough is seeing a clear opportunity that will increase my earnings in the short‑term, but knowing that saying "no" will open me up to things that might be even more valuable in ways that are hard to understand. Enough is knowing that the clothes, fancy meal, or latest gadget will not make me happier, but also that buying such things won't mean I'm going to end up broke. Enough is having meaningful conversations with people that inspire me, people that I love, or people that support me.

I have a hunch that many people are writing books that are not as good as they’d like and/or are upset with sales around launch because too many people are defaulting to tired playbooks for doing books.

trying to monetize too much as a creator feels risky to me. there's just a long line of history of humans that risked so much just to do creative work

its such a privilege to be able to do this work as much as I do. the work is the payment itself

I don’t want people to stop grinding. The most hardcore never will.

I just want to show the ones suffering that there may be another path.

This is only scary to the people that are afraid to stop.

The path that feels exciting and great to be on is also filled with a lot of unmapped territory. This writing and publishing path feels good because there are just so many things I’m not that good at or want to get better at.

if you want to see where the future of books is going, you need to be paying attention to fantasy and romantasy and fan fiction self-published authors

some of these writers are world-class entrepreneurs