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Tim Ferriss

For 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.
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Dreams Hold People Trouble
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
If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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Challenge Face Important Scare
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
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Fear Important Need
Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.
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Fix Focus Strength Weakness
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
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
Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
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Available Time Wasted
Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.
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Dreams Name Time
Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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Life Luxury Mobility Style
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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Better Improvement Time Yourself
The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
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Better Method Perfection Quit Yourself
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
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Important Task Time
It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
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Box Enough Passive Thinking

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