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Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.

Tim Ferriss

I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.
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Control Discipline Independent Value
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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Money Poor Resource Simplicity Time Worth Yourself
A person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have.
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Comfortable Himself Life Measurement Person Success Willing
Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.
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Fix Focus Strength Weakness
An entrepreneur isn’t someone who owns a business, it’s someone who makes things happen.
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Business Entrepreneur Inspirational
Learn to ask, “If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?”
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Accomplishment Day Learning Myself Satisfaction
If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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Challenge Face Important Scare
What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
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Action Important Method Way Yourself
Dreamlining is so named because it applies timelines to what most would consider dreams.
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Dreams Name Time
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
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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Big Life Listening People Short Small Thinking
For uncommon solutions, you have to look in uncommon places.
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Place See Solution Yourself
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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Accomplishment Believe Elimination Mandatory Possible World
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
Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
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Priority Time
Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
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Future Past Small Step

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