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There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.

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
There is always more information than attention.
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Attention Information
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Important Task Time
If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
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Important Priority Time Yourself
Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.
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Dreams Name Time
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
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Better Competition Thinking Worth Yourself
If you don’t have time, the truth is, you don’t have priorities. Think harder; don’t work harder.
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Priority Time Truth Work Yourself
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
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
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
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Difference Remember Slow
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
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
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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Anxiety Depression Future Past Yourself
Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
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Encouragement Inspirational Need People
The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance
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Best Improvement Performance Physical Way Yourself

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