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When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.

Tim Ferriss

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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Fear Important Need
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
It’s not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.
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Enough Question Right Yourself
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
Learn to be difficult when it counts.
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Count Difficult Learning
There are two components that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
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Component Enjoyment Fundamental Learning Service
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
Exercise is overrated.
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Exercise One Liner
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
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Difference Remember Slow
I have plenty of money to do what I want to do, and I have the relationships.
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Abundance Money Myself Relationship
The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.
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Condition Perfection Universe Way Yourself
The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves.
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Inspirational Limitation Motivational Ourselves Rule
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
Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility.
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Life Luxury Mobility Style
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
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Leaving Quit Winner Work
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too.
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Insecurity Self Love World Yourself
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
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
Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.
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Available Time Wasted
Slowing down doesn’t mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.
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Accomplishment Distraction Perception Slow
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
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
Reality is negotiable.
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Deep Life One Liner Reality
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
If the challenge we face doesn’t scare us, then it’s probably not that important.
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Challenge Face Important Scare
The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
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Better Method Perfection Quit Yourself
Many a false step was made by standing still.
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Coward Fake Mistake Stand Step Wisdom

When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.

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