Learn to be difficult when it counts.
TIM FERRISSThis 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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You can lose money and make it back, you can’t do that with time.
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If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
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Just a few words on time management: forget all about it.
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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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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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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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There are certain things I will automate, but when it comes to quality control, I want to keep a very close eye.
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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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Reality is negotiable.
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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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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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I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.
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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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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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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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