If you can—when you can—focus on the process rather than the outcome. Not so much where you’re going but how you’re getting there. Romanticize every aspect of the process: the silent struggle and later, the tremendous break through. If you learn to fall in love with the process, the outcome becomes secondary and eventually, unnecessary. I was listening to an interview just the other day of a Jai Alai player who has played the sport for decades. Today, he plays in front of crowds of just a dozen people. He says, “I play as if 15,000 people are watching.” This is a craftsman in the purest sense, an obsessive athelete mastering a dying sport somewhere in Miami. Professionals focus on the process. Amateurs focus on the outcome.