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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
Outside of science and law, all rules can be bent or broken, and it doesn’t require being unethical.
the first of the three luxury lifestyle design ingredients: time.
income.
mobility.
finding a market before designing a product is smarter than the reverse.
Money is multiplied in practical value depending on the number of W’s you control in your life: what you do, when you do it, where you do it, and with whom you do it. I call this the “freedom multiplier.”
Options—the ability to choose—is real power.
I can’t give you a surefire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
won by reading the rules and looking for unexploited opportunities,
The important distinction is that between official rules and self-imposed rules.
Different is better when it is more effective or more fun.
If the recipe sucks, it doesn’t matter how good a cook you are.
The universe doesn’t conspire against you, but it doesn’t go out of its way to line up all the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.
If it’s important to you and you want to do it “eventually,” just do it and correct course along the way.
If it isn’t going to devastate those around you, try it and then justify it.
the potential damage is moderate or in any way reversible, don’t give people the chance to say no.
The choice is between multiplication of results using strengths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre.
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.
Define your nightmare, the absolute worst that could happen if you did what you are considering.
How could you get things back under control?
What are the outcomes or benefits, both temporary and permanent, of more probable scenarios?
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do. As I have heard said, a person’s success in life can usually be measured by the number of uncomfortable conversations he or she is willing to have. Resolve to do one thing every day that you
Doing the Unrealistic Is Easier Than Doing the Realistic
Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
The fishing is best where the fewest go, and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone else is aiming for base hits.
This brings us full circle. The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?”
success can be measured in the number of uncomfortable conversations you’re willing to have.
‘Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.’ You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.”
Life is too short to be small.
list up to five things you dream of
having
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roots
one place to visit one thing to do before you die (a memory of a lifetime) one thing to do daily one thing to do weekly one thing you’ve always wanted to learn
Convert each “being” into a “doing” to make it actionable.
calculate your Target Monthly Income (TMI) for realizing these dreamlines.
your total monthly expenses × 1.3 (the 1.3 represents your expenses plus a 30% buffer for safety or savings).
Determine three steps for each of the four dreams in just the 6-month timeline and take the first step now.
Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
1. Doing something unimportant well does not make it important. 2. Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
What you do is infinitely more important than how you do it.
Pareto’s Law can be summarized as follows: 80% of the outputs result from 20% of the inputs.
The goal is to find your inefficiencies in order to eliminate them and to find your strengths so you can multiply them.
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. Being busy is a form of laziness—lazy thinking and indiscriminate action.
Parkinson’s Law dictates that a task will swell in (perceived) importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion. It is the magic of the imminent deadline.
The end product of the shorter deadline is almost inevitably of equal or higher quality due to greater focus.
1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson’s Law).
ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active?
