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The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.

Tim Ferriss

The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.
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Best Elimination Experience Goal Leaving Simplicity World
Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.
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Big Life Listening People Short Small Thinking
If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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Challenge Face Important Scare
The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.
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Condition Perfection Universe Way Yourself
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
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Insecurity Self Love World Yourself
Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.
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Dreams Name Time
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
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Important Task Time
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
Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
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One Liner Simplicity
The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.
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Best Big Competition Goal Inspirational Motivational
What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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Action Important Method Way Yourself
Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.
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Accomplishment Believe Elimination Mandatory Possible World
Just as modern man consumes both too many calories and calories of no nutritional value, information workers eat data both in excess and from the wrong sources.
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Consumption Data Eat Information Man Source Value Wrong
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
Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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Count Difficult Learning
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
Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
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Ignorance Important Path Production Selection
Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.
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Change Character Money Reveal Yourself
Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does.
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Age Mindset Open
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
The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance
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Best Improvement Performance Physical Way Yourself
Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.
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Fix Focus Strength Weakness
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
For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
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Place See Solution Yourself
Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
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Future Past Small Step
Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don’t create a product, then seek someone to sell it to. Find a market – define your customers – then find or develop a product for them.
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Creation Customer Demand Development Easy Production Yourself

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