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Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.

Tim Ferriss

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
Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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Deserve People Poison Thinking Time
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
What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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Action Important Method Way Yourself
Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
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Forget Management Time Word
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
If only I had more money is the easiest way to postpone the intense self-examination and decision-making necessary to create a life of enjoyment – now and not later.
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Easy Enjoyment Examination Intense Life Money Myself Necessary
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
For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
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Place See Solution Yourself
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
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
Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
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Blessing Curse Fight Freedom Help Military Minimalism
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
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
An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.
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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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