Don't compare what you know about your life to what you know about other people's lives -- because you only know about their successes. While you know both the

Don't compare what you know about your life to what you know about other people's lives -- because you only know about their successes. While you know both the good and bad about your own. Baby steps. Don't try to do big things. Do small things completely and with great care -- and celebrate those tiny victories. You see, you never know where those tiny projects are going to eventually lead. Google started off with a guy thinking "hey, what if you were to think of the world wide web like a graph -- I bet you could get better search results by ranking pages by the degree of incoming arcs". It was actually a relatively small idea. So just take some baby steps and see where they lead. And don't worry about stumbling and falling -- babies suck at walking. Even the ones who will eventually win marathons.