To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
TIM FERRISSLack of time is actually lack of priorities.
More Tim Ferriss Quotes
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Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
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To enjoy life, you don’t need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren’t as serious as you make them out to be.
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Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.
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Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.
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If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment – now and not later.
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Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
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Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.
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Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.
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Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
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Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
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Many a false step was made by standing still.
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A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
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Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
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Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!
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I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.
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Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
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People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.
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Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress—stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.
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Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.
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It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
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If someone’s criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don’t want to hear it. It doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
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Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
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Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.
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A goal without real consequences is wishful thinking. Good follow-through doesn’t depend on the right intentions. It depends on the right incentives.
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