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Compile your to-do list for tomorrow no later than this evening.

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Tim Ferriss
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: July 20
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The problem with New Year's resolutions - and resolutions to 'get in better shape' in general, which are very amorphous - is that people try to adopt too many behavioral changes at once. It doesn't work. I don't care if you're a world-class CEO - you'll quit.
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Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail.
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One of the bigger misconceptions of learning is that many skills take a lifetime to get world-class at, or 10,000 hours to become world-class at.
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This is not my phrase, but if you're stuck in the past, then you're depressed. If you're stuck in the future, then you're anxious.
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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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Sports just happen to be excellent for avoiding foreign-language stage fright and developing lasting friendships while still sounding like Tarzan.
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The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is boredom.
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The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.
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Everything that works in sales has been done already. Just keep track of the crap that you buy, or the awesome stuff that you buy, and decide what was the trigger, and then just sell to people like you. It's really that easy - and that's what I do.
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Learn the art of the pitch and of messaging.
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I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
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The best results I have had in my life the most enjoyable times, have all come from asking the simple question: 'What is the worst that could happen?'
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Never check email first thing in the morning. Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading email as a postponement excuse.
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People are fond of using the its not what you know, its who you know adage as an excuse for inaction, as if all successful people are born with powerful friends. Nonsense.
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Slowing down doesn't mean accomplishing less it means cutting out counterproductive distractions and the perception of being rushed.
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Happiness has a very short half-life.
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People don't want to be millionaires - they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.
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The commonsense rules of the real world are a fragile collection of socially reinforced illusions.
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The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much time on a blogger with a million-person readership as I would pitching an editor of a publication with a million person subscription-base.
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Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner
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