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.
TIM FERRISSFor 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.
More Tim Ferriss Quotes
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Reality is negotiable.
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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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Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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The fishing is best where the fewest go. There is just less competition for bigger goals.
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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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Are you better off than you were one year ago, one month ago, or one week ago? If not, things will not improve by themselves.
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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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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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Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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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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An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.
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If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
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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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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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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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Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
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The way that you become world-class is… by asking good questions.
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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
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If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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This is not my phrase, but if you’re stuck in the past, then you’re depressed. If you’re stuck in the future, then you’re anxious.
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Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
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Slowing down doesn’t mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.
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Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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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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