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I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

Tim Ferriss

Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
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Forget Management Time Word
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
A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
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Comfortable Himself Life Measurement Person Success Willing
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
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Important Task Time
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
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
Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
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Encouragement Inspirational Need People
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
If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
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Important Priority Time Yourself
That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? – Why not you, why not now.
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Hell Question Yourself
The way that you become world-class is… by asking good questions.
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Goodness Question Way World Yourself
To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
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Ignorance Impossible Need Popular
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 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
People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Happiness People Uncertain

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