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Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

Tim Ferriss

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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Control Enjoyment Need Serious Time Yourself
Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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Count Difficult Learning
The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance
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Best Improvement Performance Physical Way Yourself
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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Better Improvement Time Yourself
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
It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
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Enough Question Right Yourself
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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Accomplishment Believe Elimination Mandatory Possible World
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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Approve Attack Believe Calm Carry Expectation Focus Hope Resistance Yourself
Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don’t create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market – define your customers – then find or develop a product for them.
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Creation Customer Demand Development Easy Production Yourself
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Fear Important Need
There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.
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Close Control Eyes Myself Quality
You can lose money and make it back, you can’t do that with time.
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Lose Money Time Yourself
The most important actions are never comfortable.
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Action Brave Comfortable Important Inspirational
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
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Insecurity Self Love World Yourself
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
If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it’s simply a poor use of resources.
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Money Poor Resource Simplicity Time Worth Yourself

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