Hide your intentions not by closing up (with the risk of appearing secretive, and making people suspicious) but by talking endlessly about your desir… - Robert Greene

Think back on the moments when you felt deeply and personally connected to an activity.

Think about the pleasure it brought you.

In such activities are signs of your true purpose.

Everyone holds his fortune in his own hands, like a sculptor the raw material he will fashion into a figure. But it’s the same with that type of artistic activity as with all others: We are merely born with the capability to do it. The skill to mold the material into what we want must be learned and attentively cultivated. — JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE

Emotions cloud reason, and if you cannot see the situation clearly, you cannot prepare for and respond to it with any degree of control.