What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
TIM FERRISSOne can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.
More Tim Ferriss Quotes
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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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Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
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Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can’t do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
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Exercise is overrated.
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Think big and don’t listen to people who tell you it can’t be done. Life’s too short to think small.
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If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it’s simply a poor use of resources.
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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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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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People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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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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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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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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Many a false step was made by standing still.
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If we define risk as ‘the likelihood of an irreversible negative outcome,’ inaction is the greatest risk of all.
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That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? – Why not you, why not now.
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