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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.

Tim Ferriss

The best way to counter-attack a hater is to make it blatantly obvious that their attack has had no impact on you.
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Attack Best Hate Impact Yourself
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
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Better Competition Thinking Worth Yourself
The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves.
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Inspirational Limitation Motivational Ourselves Rule
If you don’t have time, you don’t have priorities.
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Important Priority Time Yourself
To enjoy life, you don’t need fancy nonsense, but you do need to control your time and realize that most things just aren’t as serious as you make them out to be.
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Control Enjoyment Need Serious Time Yourself
It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
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Enough Question Right Yourself
Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
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Available Time Wasted
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Fear Important Need
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
Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
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Deserve People Poison Thinking Time
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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Correct Important 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
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
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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Goal Intention Reality Right Thinking
Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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Count Difficult Learning
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
The best way to improve mental performance, is to improve physical performance
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Best Improvement Performance Physical Way Yourself
The most important actions are never comfortable.
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Action Brave Comfortable Important Inspirational
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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Complete Criticism Hold Myself
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
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
It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting outside the box.
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Box Enough Passive Thinking
Pacifists become militants. Freedom fighters become tyrants. Blessings become curses. Help becomes hindrance. More becomes less.
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Blessing Curse Fight Freedom Help Military Minimalism
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
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
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
If you don’t have time, the truth is, you don’t have priorities. Think harder; don’t work harder.
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Priority Time Truth Work Yourself

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