Chris Guillebeau

If you want to achieve the unimaginable, you start by imagining it.

Quests bring meaning and fulfillment to our lives.

If you want to get the embers burning, you have to blend dissatisfaction with inspiration, and then you have to connect the dissatisfaction to a greater purpose.

When misadventure strikes, you can panic or you can figure it out. One of these solutions is better than the other.

While many quests are born out of spontaneity and a yearning for romance, a healthy dose of reasoning is needed if you hope to see your quest through.

Your basic ‘life list’—a term we’ll use as a synonym for bucket list—isn’t a bad start. But what if you could go further? What if you organized your entire life around a single, principle focus or aim?

Why pursue a quest? Because each of us in our lives is writing our own story, and we only have one chance to get it right.

Whatever your quest, you must believe!

Whatever it was, those people have essentially picked up a winning lottery ticket to the world of work. That’s the goal for all of us: to find work that feels like play, yet also has meaning *and* a good paycheck attached to it.

In your dream job, you want to find the ideal intersection between joy, money, and flow—and you’ll get there by meeting people’s needs and providing real solutions.

The answer is to start with a lot of different baskets. Try a lot of things. Over time, you discover something that requires more of your time and attention—and that’s when you switch to focusing more and more on that one thing. In other words, you expand your options, and then you limit them.

The more we focus on solving other people’s problems, the more successful we will be.

The first step... to identify what you really want.

Never give up is bad advice. Real winners won’t hesitate to walk away from an unsuccessful venture. Master the art of moving on by learning when to quit and when to keep going.

Never give up is bad advice. Real winners won’t hesitate to walk away from an unsuccessful venture. Master the art of moving on by learning when to quit and when to keep going.