Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
TIM FERRISSTo 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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Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? – Why not you, why not now.
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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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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
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One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.
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Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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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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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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When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
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Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can’t do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
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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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There is always more information than attention.
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What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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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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The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves.
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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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Sometimes you need to go on a low-information diet.
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Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
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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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The way that you become world-class is… by asking good questions.
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The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.
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Many a false step was made by standing still.
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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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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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