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For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.

Tim Ferriss

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
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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Goal Intention Reality Right Thinking
An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.
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Business Entrepreneur Inspirational
Exercise is overrated.
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Exercise One Liner
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
Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does.
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Age Mindset Open
Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
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Available Time Wasted
There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
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Component Enjoyment Fundamental Learning Service
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Happiness People Uncertain
For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
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Place See Solution Yourself
Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.
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Dreams Name Time
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
Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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Deserve People Poison Thinking Time
Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
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Forget Management Time Word
Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.
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Fix Focus Strength Weakness
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

For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.

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