A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
TIM FERRISSLuxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
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Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
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Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
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It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
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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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There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
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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?
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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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If you don’t have time, the truth is, you don’t have priorities. Think harder; don’t work harder.
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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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For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
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Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.
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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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Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
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Simplicity requires ruthlessness.
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The most important actions are never comfortable.
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Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory. Enter the world of elimination.
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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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Many a false step was made by standing still.
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You can lose money and make it back, you can’t do that with time.
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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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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
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If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
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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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