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If we define risk as ‘the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,’ inaction is the greatest risk of all.

Tim Ferriss

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
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
The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves.
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Inspirational Limitation Motivational Ourselves Rule
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
The way that you become world-class is… by asking good questions.
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Goodness Question Way World Yourself
If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually’, just do it and correct course along the way.
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Correct Important Way Yourself
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Important Task Time
If someone’s criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don’t want to hear it. It doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
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Complete Criticism Hold Myself
Reality is negotiable.
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Deep Life One Liner Reality
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
What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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Action Important Method Way Yourself
Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
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Future Past Small Step
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
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
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
Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
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Priority Time

If we define risk as ‘the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,’ inaction is the greatest risk of all.

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