It's Ben's birthday

Ben, I think you are wonderful. I believe in you. Happy birthday! Here's my advice: Structure the world so you win. That's my plan, and you can do it, too.
Here's how. Here are 100 ways to structure the world so you win.
1. Embrace the suck. There's a benefit to every drawback, if you can just look close enough.
2. Have several short-term goals, as well as a long-term one. When you achieve your long-term goal, you have another plan to go to immediately. The space between goals is a vast vacuum. You need to fill the void as soon as it appears.