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It’s far more lucrative and fun to leverage your strengths instead of attempting to fix all the chinks in your armor.
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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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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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For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. 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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The tricky thing about life is, on the one hand having the courage to enter into things that are unfamiliar, but also having the wisdom to stop exploring when you’ve found something worth sticking around for. That is true of a place, of a person, of a vocation. Balancing those two things—the courage of exploring and the commitment to staying – and getting the ratio right is very hard. I think my 70-year-old self would say: ‘Be careful that you don’t err on one side or the other, because you have an ill-conceived idea of who you are.
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To have an uncommon lifestyle you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.
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This is something that is – being true to oneself – I think that most people struggle with.
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If we’re serious all the time, we’ll wear out before we get the truly serious stuff done.
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Does your life have a purpose? 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?
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To dramitically change your life, you don’t need to run a 100-mile race, get a PhD, or completely reinvest yourself. It’s the small things, done consistently, that are the big things.
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Service isn’t limited to saving lives or the environment. It can also improve life. If you are a musician and put a smile on the faces of thousands or millions, I view that as service. If you are a mentor and change the life of one child for the better, the world has been improved.
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If you want confusion and heartache, ask vague questions. If you want uncommon clarity and results, ask uncommonly clear questions.
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If you make yourself laugh every once in a while, at least you will have fun. And that is perhaps the best strategy of all.
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To feel more at peace and more successful, you don’t need genius-level brain power, access to some secret society, or to his a moving target of “just” and additional X dollars. Those are all distractions.
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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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I believe that life exists to be enjoyed, and that the most important thing is to feel good about yourself.
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You are the author of your own life, and it’s never too late to replace the stories you tell yourself and the world.
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The 80-hour-per-week, 500 000$-per-year investment banker is less “powerful” than the employed New Rich who works 1/4 the hours for 40 000$, but has complete freedom of when, where, and how to live.
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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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The question no one really seemed to be answering was: ‘Why do it all in the first place? What’s the pot of gold that justifies spending the best years of you life hoping for happiness in the last?’.
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Friction points and single points of failure happen in any given day potentially, so think in a concise, intelligent way. Out of five items to do, which one would make you satisfied with your entire day?
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If you don’t regularly appreciate the small wins, you will never appreciate the big wins. They’ll all fall through your fingers like sand as you obsess on the next week, the next to-do, the next thing to fix.
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I leaned against the wall and slid down until I was sitting on the floor. I closed my eyes, smiled, and took a deep breath. Things were about to change. Everything was about to change.
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The key to not feeling rushed is remembering that lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
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On the Jar Of Awesome: Cultivate the habtis of putting something in every day. Can’t think of anything? “I didn’t die today!” is a reliable winner.
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On the Jar Of Awesome: When something great happens, you think you’ll remember it 3 months later, but you won’t.
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On the Jar Of Awesome: There is a mason jar on my kitchen counter with JAR OF AWESOME in glitter letters on the side. Anything something really cool happens in a day, something that made me excited or joyful, doctor’s orders are to write it down on a slip of paper and put it in this mason jar.
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I’m often asked how I define “success.” It’s an overused term, but I fundamentally view this elusive beast as a combination of two things – achievement and appreciation.
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Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.
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The opposite of love is indifference, and the opposite of happiness is – here’s the clincher – boredom.
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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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If I have 10 important things to do in a day, it’s 100% certain nothing important will get done that day.
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If you get distracted or start procrastinating, don’t freak out and downward spiral; just gently come back to your ONE to-do.
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Block out at 2-3 hours to focus on one of them for today. Let the rest of the urgent but less important stuff slide. It will still be there tomorrow.
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“Not-to-do” lists are often more effective than to-do lists for upgrading performance.
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It’s often what you do, not how you do it, that is the determining factor. This is the difference from being effective; doing the right things, and being efficient; doing things well whether they are important.
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One could argue that I should work on my reactivity instead of avoiding stocks. I’d agree on tempering reactivity, but I’d disagree on fixing weaknesses as a primary investment (or life) strategy.
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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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Money doesn’t change you; it reveals who you are when you no longer have to be nice.
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If you find yourself saying, “But I’m making so much money” about a job or project, pay attention. “But I’m making so much money,” or “But I’m making good money” is a warning sign that you’re probably not on the right track or, at least, that you shouldn’t stay there for long. Money can always be regenerated. Time and reputation cannot.
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