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What Worked Yesterday Could Ruin You Tomorrow

“What worked yesterday may have built your foundation, but it’s what you do next that determines whether you keep growing or quietly fade into the background.”

By Gary Percival Sep 7, 2025

Gravity Once Made No Sense. Neither Did Germs.

“Wrong is often the first draft of right.”

By Gary Percival Sep 7, 2025
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Make Something. Learn Everything

“Reading keeps things theoretical. Making makes things personal.”

By Gary Percival Aug 31, 2025

You’re Closer Than You Think—If You’re Moving

"Progress often feels invisible at first, but if you keep moving, you’re closer to success than you think."

By Gary Percival Aug 24, 2025
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It Looks Like Intuition. It’s Just Repetition

"What looks like instinct from the outside is usually just repetition. Intuition isn’t born—it’s earned through the quiet work of showing up, again and again, until patterns emerge."

By Gary Percival Aug 24, 2025
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Serendipity Has Ears

"Serendipity doesn’t have a sixth sense — it has ears. It can only respond to what it hears."

By Gary Percival Aug 17, 2025

Your Ideal Role Might Have the Wrong Name

“Your ideal role might have the wrong name—and that label could be quietly keeping you out of the opportunities where you’d thrive.”

By Gary Percival Aug 10, 2025
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You Can’t Rewind—But You Can Redirect

“The past is only useful if it informs your future—it’s not a prison, it’s a path.”

By Gary Percival Aug 10, 2025
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The Work That Works—And Why We Stop Doing It

"Success doesn’t always require more effort—sometimes it’s about returning to what already worked and doing it again."

By Gary Percival Aug 3, 2025

Quick Clicks, Slow Regret

“You gave them your time before you gave yourself time.”

By Gary Percival Jul 27, 2025
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Old Scripts, New Authors

“You are not the story you inherited. You are the author of what comes next.”

By Gary Percival Jul 27, 2025
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Success Draws Crowds—Storms Reveal Who Stays

“That’s not a failure. That’s a filter.”

By Gary Percival Jul 20, 2025
A woman sits calmly beneath cracked, floating megaphones—symbolising imagined judgement and quiet creative defiance.

The Invisible Critics Blocking Your Boldest Work

"You didn’t get rejected—you just imagined the criticism and let it guide your hand."

By Gary Percival Jul 13, 2025

Impatience Is Costing You More Than You Think

"Don’t confuse a lack of speed with a lack of progress."

By Gary Percival Jul 13, 2025
Two human heads—one mechanical, one organic—face each other, symbolising borrowed thinking vs. personal intuition.

Stop Thinking With Someone Else’s Brain

"It feels like action, but it’s imitation—and imitation can’t carry a meaningful creative career."

By Gary Percival Jul 6, 2025

The Danger of Getting Stuck in Learning Mode

“Learning without implementation isn’t growth—it’s hoarding.”

By Gary Percival Jun 29, 2025

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