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Many a false step was made by standing still.

Tim Ferriss

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
Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.
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Encouragement Inspirational Need People
This is not my phrase, but if you’re stuck in the past, then you’re depressed. If you’re stuck in the future, then you’re anxious.
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Anxiety Depression Future Past Yourself
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
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
Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
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Feeling Grace Luxury Myself Peace
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
The goal is not to simply eliminate the bad, which does nothing more than leave you with a vacuum, but to pursue and experience the best in the world.
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Best Elimination Experience Goal Leaving Simplicity World
Reality is negotiable.
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Deep Life One Liner Reality
Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Important Task Time
It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
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Enough Question Right Yourself
If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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Challenge Face Important Scare
Age doesn’t matter. An open mind does.
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Age Mindset Open
Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
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Forget Management Time Word
The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance
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Best Improvement Performance Physical Way 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
Short, sweet, and to the point. Clear writing, and therefore clear commands, comes from clear thinking. Think simple.
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Clear Command Point Simplicity Sweet Thinking Writing
What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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Action Important Method Way Yourself
Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate in rupees.
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Fun Live Management Money
Luxury is feeling unrushed. It is designing a life that allows you to do what you want with high leverage, with many options, all while feeling unrushed.
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Design Feeling Life Luxury Option Yourself
Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
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One Liner Simplicity
If you don’t have time, the truth is, you don’t have priorities. Think harder; don’t work harder.
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Priority Time Truth Work Yourself
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
You can lose money and make it back, you can’t do that with time.
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Lose Money Time Yourself
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Fear Important Need
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
There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
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Component Enjoyment Fundamental Learning Service

Many a false step was made by standing still.

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