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The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?

Tim Ferriss

What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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Action Important Method Way Yourself
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
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
There is always more information than attention.
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Attention Information
When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.
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Big Failure Inspirational Motivational Try Yourself
If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
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Important Priority Time Yourself
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
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Better Competition Thinking Worth Yourself
That’s precisely the question everyone should be asking-why the hell not? – Why not you, why not now.
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Hell Question Yourself
Focus on impact, not approval. If you believe you can change the world, which I hope you do, do what you believe is right and expect resistance and expect attackers. Keep calm and carry on!
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Approve Attack Believe Calm Carry Expectation Focus Hope Resistance Yourself
Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
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One Liner Simplicity
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
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
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
Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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Life Luxury Mobility Style
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
The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
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Better Method Perfection Quit Yourself

The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?

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