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Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.

Tim Ferriss

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
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Difference Remember Slow
Reality is negotiable.
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Deep Life One Liner Reality
The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance
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Best Improvement Performance Physical Way Yourself
The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?
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Enjoyment Excitement Inspirational Motivational Myself Question
For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
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Place See Solution Yourself
When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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Big Failure Inspirational Motivational Try Yourself
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Important Task Time
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
Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.
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Fix Focus Strength Weakness
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
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
Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
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Priority Time
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
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
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
Exercise is overrated.
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Exercise One Liner

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