Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
TIM FERRISSPeople 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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The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
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Learn to ask, “If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?”
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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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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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Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
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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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Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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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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Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.
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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
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The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.
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I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.
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The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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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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