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This is not my phrase, but if you’re stuck in the past, then you’re depressed. If you’re stuck in the future, then you’re anxious.

Tim Ferriss

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
If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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Challenge Face Important Scare
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
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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Consumption Data Eat Information Man Source Value Wrong
Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
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Encouragement Inspirational Need People
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
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
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Happiness People Uncertain
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
Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can’t do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
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Average Believe Greatness People
The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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Assumption Big Smart Time Work
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
Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.
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Diet Information Need Time
I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.
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Abundance Money Myself Relationship
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
When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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Big Failure Inspirational Motivational Try Yourself

This is not my phrase, but if you’re stuck in the past, then you’re depressed. If you’re stuck in the future, then you’re anxious.

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This is not my phrase, but if you’re stuck in the past, then you’re depressed. If you’re stuck in the future, then you’re anxious.

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