I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
TIM FERRISSIf it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually’, just do it and correct course along the way.
More Tim Ferriss Quotes
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Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of mental laziness-lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
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Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
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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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If someone’s criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don’t want to hear it. It doesn’t hold up to scrutiny.
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To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular.
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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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What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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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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Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
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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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The biggest misconception about work is that you need to spend the majority of your time doing it.
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It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
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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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Slowing down doesn’t mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.
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Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
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