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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

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
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
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
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
There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.
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Close Control Eyes Myself Quality
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
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
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
To enjoy life, you don’t need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren’t as serious as you make them out to be.
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Control Enjoyment Need Serious Time Yourself
Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.
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Dreams Name 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
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
For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
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Place See Solution Yourself
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
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Action Difference Mental Remember Slow Thinking
What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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Action Important Method Way Yourself
The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves.
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Inspirational Limitation Motivational Ourselves Rule

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