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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

Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
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Available Time Wasted
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 only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves.
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Inspirational Limitation Motivational Ourselves Rule
Exercise is overrated.
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Exercise One Liner
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
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
I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.
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Control Discipline Independent Value
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Important Task Time
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
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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Action Avoid Busy Comfortable Criticism Discrimination Form Lazy Thinking
Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.
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Accomplishment Believe Elimination Mandatory Possible World
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
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Difference Remember Slow
If we define risk as ‘the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,’ inaction is the greatest risk of all.
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Action Definition Greatness Negative Risk
Reality is negotiable.
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Deep Life One Liner Reality
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
Slowing down doesn’t mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.
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Accomplishment Distraction Perception Slow

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