Don’t let your past be forgotten. Always measure backward. - Benjamin P. Hardy

If you can get your head in that game, and actually believe you can “compete” at that level, you’ll see the “experts” work from a different angle. You’ll stop worshipping your heroes and their work. Instead, you’ll begin studying them. What exactly are these people doing differently? How was their work crafted and marketed? Where are the holes you could easily improve upon? What aren’t they doing and why? Rather than consuming your hero’s work as a spectator, you should see it as a tennis ball being sent over the net toward you. Your job now is to respond by sending something back even better.

Your behavior follows your purpose and goals. Without conscious purpose, the how becomes conflicted and chaotic.

research shows that imagining the absence of a positive event in your life has a more powerful effect on you than simply looking back on that positive event. Likewise, imagining the absence of an important person in your life can be more powerful than simply appreciating the fact that they are in your life. One study found that mentally subtracting a material possession you’ve previously enjoyed increases your happiness with that item more than simply thinking back on when you purchased