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Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.

Tim Ferriss

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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Goal Intention Reality Right Thinking
Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
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Available Time Wasted
For all their bitching about what’s holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they’re being held from.
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Dreams Hold People Trouble
The most important actions are never comfortable.
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Action Brave Comfortable Important Inspirational
Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.
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Clear Command Point Simplicity Sweet Thinking Writing
Being busy is a form of laziness – lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
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Action Avoid Busy Comfortable Criticism Discrimination Form Lazy Thinking
The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
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Better Method Perfection Quit Yourself
For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
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Place See Solution Yourself
Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
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One Liner Simplicity
If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually’, just do it and correct course along the way.
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Correct Important Way Yourself
The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?
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Enjoyment Excitement Inspirational Motivational Myself Question
Learn to ask, “If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?”
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Accomplishment Day Learning Myself Satisfaction
Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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Deserve People Poison Thinking Time
Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
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Feeling Grace Luxury Myself Peace
If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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Challenge Face Important Scare
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Happiness People Uncertain
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
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Box Enough Passive Thinking
Many a false step was made by standing still.
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Coward Fake Mistake Stand Step Wisdom
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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Action Born Excuse Friendship People Powerful Success
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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Comfortable Growth Health Limitation Modeling Risk Role
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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Failure Happiness People Scare Shadow Uncertain
If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
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Important Priority Time Yourself
Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
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Priority Time
Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does.
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Age Mindset Open
The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.
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Best Big Competition Goal Inspirational Motivational
I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Design Fear Head Inspirational Motivational Repeat Tattoo Yourself

Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.

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Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.

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