recipe for anything worth doing

start with that idea that keeps bubbling to the surface of your thoughts again and again, month after month

add an Initial Movement

realize it is harder than you thought and let rest from 1 month to 20 years, checking in once every month

realize you're going to do it anyway

gather information from the internet, from nature, from your friends & family, and from thin air

separate dry ingredients (technical statistics, flowcharts, financial calculations) and wet ingredients (passion, drive, persistence)

mix dry ingredients together and slowly pour in wet ingredients, adding persistence as needed to keep malleable when mixture toughens

half-bake in oven and realize you got half of the dry ingredients wrong

take notes and repeat above process until something that can stand on its own comes out if the oven

while it may not be what you originally envisioned, look at it and see what you can do with it... what would people use this for?

repeat the process with this in mind until you can convince yourself (first) and other people that there is value in it

ask for feedback, the more bitter it tastes the better it is for you

repeat above process until you become numb to failure and realize it only exists when you stop moving forward (momentum is everything)

when you become proficient, you will also realize how much more there is to learn

begin at step 1, this time much wiser and more skilled

you have not come full circle, back to square one... you have spiraled upwards one level.