You have an idea. But the problem is, what do you do with an idea? How do you move your idea forward? Tip the scales in your favour. I gave you the formula to guarantee you fail at life. Here are the steps to make sure that never happens.

Every artist or creative knows the feeling: you've been working hard on a project or an idea, it all seems great, like the best idea you've ever had, until suddenly you hit a wall. There are special terms for this sometimes, like writer's block, but other times it really feels like a dry period in which you cannot come up with a single good idea or solution to a problem.

I get a kick out of going to my buddy Joel's. His little guy Malcolm hits me with the question "why?" the first chance he gets. I'm lucky if I get my shoes off. I'm sure it grows tiring as a parent, but as an observer it's fascinating. It's also, incredible life advice.

I once compared my life to the Truman Show before he realized he was on simulated television. For those who haven’t seen it, the movie follows Truman – a man who was adopted as a baby and raised by a corporation inside a television show. He was unaware that everyone he met was either acting out a script or repeating lines fed to them by the show’s creator.

Do you shy away from rules when dreaming of your ideal future? It's about freedom, man. Rules ruin the fun factor. Read that again in the Matthew McConaughey Dazed and Confused voice and you get what I'm putting down. I'm going to argue it has the opposite effect. Rules to live by liberate you. The foremost rule is that you must take responsibility for your own life.

It is not enough to merely think about our potential. We need to discover it, to live it, to make it a reality. It begins as an image, something you want to see more clearly. You tell the world what you like and what you don't like, what is bugging you and what is giving you delight. You tell the world what you would like more of, what you would like less of, and through this clarity, a shift occurs.