There is a difference between stress and distress. - Joe Polish

If you really did an analysis of who are your best referrers, your best clients, your best friends, and you removed yourself as much as possible from the ones that are hard, annoying, lame and frustrating, and you focused your attention on the people, the activities, the strategies that are easy, lucrative and fun -- you will have plenty of time to do marketing.

The opposite of addiction is connection.

I had to figure out how to successfully sell something nobody wants to buy. No sane person hopes that a cat is going to piss in the corner -- nobody is excited about calling a carpet cleaner. And it really made me realize that what you sell is just one thing. What they're getting from the thing you're selling, the pain that it's removing -- that's what matters.