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Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.

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
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
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 we define risk as ‘the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,’ inaction is the greatest risk of all.
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Action Definition Greatness Negative Risk
Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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Life Luxury Mobility Style
The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance
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Best Improvement Performance Physical Way Yourself
One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.
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Execution Ideas Passion Steal
Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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Deserve People Poison Thinking Time
Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
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Encouragement Inspirational Need People
When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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Big Failure Inspirational Motivational Try Yourself
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
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
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
Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
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Future Past Small Step
Exercise is overrated.
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Exercise One Liner
Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed.
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Design Feeling Life Luxury Option Yourself

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