Jay Marcyes

While all of them are good, here are some of my favorites:

7. Busy-ness as a path to nowhere
There’s a fellow down the street that picks up bottles all day. He
works much harder than the executive in the office tower but earns far
less. It’s not by any means fair.
Most of us get caught up in being busy, instead of concentrating on
what are accomplishing. This feels satisfying, as all of our peers are
doing the same. (Logic suggests this is simply a bad habit.)
Get “un-busy”; determine where your wealth and happiness come from, and put your resources into that.

via Part 1

17. One page
Banks, VCs, and bureaucracies turn business planning into a grand,
theoretical exercise. When you need their money you have little choice,
other than meeting their demands.
But bigger plans don’t make for better businesses. (Sometimes they
cloud the fact that one’s idea really isn’t that good.) See if you can
get your business plan to one page that anyone can read. If it makes
sense, you may be on to something.

via Part 2

18. Do less
Concentrate on doing one thing exceptionally well. Go as “narrow” as
you can. At first it will be scary, and you’ll wonder if you are
missing out on an opportunity.
With time, however, you’ll be ahead: Marketing will be simpler. Processes will become clearer. Decisions will be easier to make.

Also via part 2

21. Design your future and you’ll grow into it
Treating possibility as fact helps make it so. For example, if you tell
your friends that you’re going to run a marathon, you’ll feel awfully
silly if you don’t. I update my bio with things that I want to
accomplish in the months ahead. Somehow this seems to help these things
seem “real” and actually happen.

via part 3

22. Six washroom meetings
The UK building at Hastings and Granville street is largely occupied by
engineers, accountants and the like. When we rented a space there I
felt that people seemed unfriendly. With time that changed.
I started to note a trend. If I met someone in the washroom they seemed
uncomfortable; but with each subsequent meeting things slowly became
less so. By the sixth passing, we’d be asking one another how our days
were going.
It takes frequency to break through barriers.

also via part 3

27. Love something
I last worked in February 2001. I left a perfectly respectable job in
order to pursue my own dreams. This choice did come with stress;
however, I’ve always felt that my days are well spent. I do what I love
and this has resulted in interesting days.
I’m at the office as much (or more) than anyone, but it never feels
like work. In comparison, many who work a scant 40 hours a week feel as
though they are stuck in prison.

also via part 3

31. Keep going
There’s a trick to success; if you stop, you’ll never get there, and
most people stop. You can do a lot of things if you keep going. Run a
marathon? Keep running. Write a book? Keep writing. Play a guitar solo?
Keep playing.
It might not turn out to be genius, but at least you’ll have done it
once. As a result, the next one will be more manageable. Just keep
going.

via part 4

34. Practice your scales
I’m often confronted by young people who believe that in order to
become great designers they need to experience the world. This isn’t
altogether untrue; one does need to live in order to understand others.
At the same time, a night out with one’s pals doesn’t negate the need
for deliberate practice.
Want to be a great designer? Spend your evenings at home, designing things. It’s really that simple.

also via part 4

37. Simplicity
What you’re doing is too complicated. Step back for a moment and simplify it.

also via part 4

48. Opportunity is easy to spot after the fact
We often reflect on life with statements like, “If I would have done
[insert action here] then; I’d be a millionaire now.” Hindsight being
what it is, such observations are easy to make and worth very little.
Oddly, it only takes is a little imagination to see opportunity, but
we’re generally disinclined to do so. Consider the death of print
media. Most see only darkness, but this shift is ripe with possibility.
Will news die just because the printed delivery device becomes
obsolete? Who’ll next deliver the news? Given the low entry cost of
online publishing tools, could you become the news?

via part 5

50. Waves
You can ignore waves, but that won’t stop them. Alternately, you can
ride them and benefit from the force of something bigger than you.

Also via part 5

Well, that's it, now go read the rest of them.