Cooking practice can be expensive and impractical. If you have the time, you can practice your tennis serve a thousand times a day for a few dollars.… - Tim Ferriss

I wish I would have known that there was no need to wait. I went to college. I went to law school. I worked in law and banking, though not for terribly long. But not until I started PayPal did I fully realize that you don’t have to wait to start something.
So if you’re planning to do something with your life, if you have a 10-year plan of how to get there, you should ask: Why can’t you do this in 6 months? Sometimes, you have to actually go through the complex, 10-year trajectory. But it’s at least worth asking whether that’s the story you’re telling yourself, or whether that’s the reality.

Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want.

Creation is a better means of self-expression than possession; it is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed. — VIDA D. SCUDDER, The Life of the Spirit in the Modern English Poets