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What’s the worst that could happen?
If you’re sick of the standard menu of options and prepared to enter a world of infinite options, this book is for you.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. —MARK TWAIN
$1,000,000 in the bank isn’t the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.
What is the pot of gold that justifies spending the best years of your life hoping for happiness in the last?
Reality is negotiable. Outside of science and law, all rules can be bent or broken, and it doesn’t require being unethical.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. —NIELS BOHR, Danish physicist and Nobel Prize winner
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. —ALBERT EINSTEIN
recognize that inactivity is not the goal. Doing that which excites you is.
To be neither the boss nor the employee, but the owner. To own the trains and have someone else ensure they run on time.
To have more quality and less clutter.
Are you contributing anything useful to this world, or just shuffling papers, banging on a keyboard, and coming home to a drunken existence on the weekends?
To have freedom from doing that which you dislike, but also the freedom and resolve to pursue your dreams without reverting to work for work’s sake (W4W).
Being financially rich and having the ability to live like a millionaire are fundamentally two very different things.
Options—the ability to choose—is real power.
Once you say you’re going to settle for second, that’s what happens to you in life. —JOHN F. KENNEDY
Sports evolve when sacred cows are killed, when basic assumptions are tested. The same is true in life and in lifestyles.
Different is better when it is more effective or more fun.
Don’t follow a model that doesn’t work. If the recipe sucks, it doesn’t matter how good a cook you are.
Retirement Is Worst-Case-Scenario Insurance.
Most people will never be able to retire and maintain even a hotdogs-for-dinner standard of living.
Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive.
“Someday” is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it’s important to you and you want to do it “eventually,” just do it and correct course along the way.
Most people are fast to stop you before you get started but hesitant to get in the way if you’re moving.
It is far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor. The choice is between multiplication
of results using strengths or incremental improvement fixing weaknesses that will, at best, become mediocre. Focus on better use of your best weapons instead of constant repair.
People who avoid all criticism fail. It’s destructive criticism we need to avoid, not criticism in all forms.
“What would happen if I did the opposite of the people around me? What will I sacrifice if I continue on this track for 5, 10, or 20 years?”
Many a false step was made by standing still. —FORTUNE COOKIE
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. —BENJAMIN DISRAELI, former British Prime Minister
Uncertainty and the prospect of failure can be very scary noises in the shadows. Most people will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.
“don’t happy, be worry” phase:
Mere panty pinches on the journey of life.
Nine to five for your working lifetime of 40–50 years is a long-ass time if the rescue doesn’t come. About 500 months of solid work. How many do you have to go? It’s probably time to cut your losses.
Don’t save it all for the end. There is every reason not to.
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
Doing the Unrealistic Is Easier Than Doing the Realistic
If you are insecure, guess what? The rest of the world is, too. Do not overestimate the competition and underestimate yourself. You are better than you think.
There is just less competition for bigger goals.
When people suggest you follow your “passion” or your “bliss,” I propose that they are, in fact, referring to the same singular concept: excitement.
‘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.”
If someone isn’t making you stronger, they’re making you weaker.
Learn to ask, “If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?”
Problems, as a rule, solve themselves or disappear if you remove yourself as an information bottleneck and empower others.
People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don’t realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world. —Calvin, from Calvin and Hobbes
Our goal is simple: to create an automated vehicle for generating cash without consuming time. That’s it.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. —WOODROW WILSON
Be professional but never kowtow to unreasonable people.
Work wherever and whenever you want, but get your work done.
