Improve Your Life by Subtracting Instead of Adding
“The least successful people I know run in conflicting directions, drawn to distractions, say yes to almost everything, and are chained to emotional obstacles. ...
“The least successful people I know run in conflicting directions, drawn to distractions, say yes to almost everything, and are chained to emotional obstacles. ...
“We have this sense that there is an objective best, and in virtually no area of life is that true. It’s not even that, ‘Well, there’s the best for me, and then...
“Every item on your to-do list can be thought of as having a return on investment — whether that be in emotional or financial capital.”
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“Small choices become actions, actions become habits, and habits become our way of life.”
“Growing accustomed to missing out takes time, but learning to say ‘no’ to things — even when you truly wish you could do those things — is an indispensable too...
“If you fail to distinguish yourself in any meaningful way, your customer will default to price as the final criteria.”
“Science tells us it’s got to be a minimum of 20 seconds. That feels like a lifetime to everybody. But that’s the way it’s got to be if you want to be 100 perce...
“To know is to be in a prison. To not know is to be free.”
“People are afraid of making the wrong decision, and at the base of that is a fallacy of what a good decision even is.”