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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

Learn to be difficult when it counts. In school as in life, having a reputation for being assertive will help you receive preferential treatment without having to beg or fight for it every time.
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Beg Count Difficult Fight Learning Life Reputation Time
Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
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Priority Time
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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Correct Important Way Yourself
Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
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Forget Management Time Word
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.
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Change Character Money Reveal Yourself
Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
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Future Past Small Step
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
You can lose money and make it back, you can’t do that with time.
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Lose Money Time Yourself
Exercise is overrated.
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Exercise One Liner
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
Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does.
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Age Mindset Open
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
When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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Big Failure Inspirational Motivational Try Yourself
Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
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Ignorance Important Path Production Selection
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

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