Focus on the basics and the process. Great things take time and are built brick by brick, overcoming one minor setback and obstacle after another.
Don’t try to solve everything at once. It can be overpowering. Break a big problem into a series of minor issues that you can quickly solve.
“Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not accidental, but must certainly be willed” - Vincent van Gogh.
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