The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my goals?” but “What would excite me?
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.
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.
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 is aiming for base hits.
Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress – stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.
Remember – boredom is the enemy, not some abstract “failure.
I’ll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
Alternating periods of activity and rest is necessary to survive, let alone thrive. Capacity, interest, and mental endurance all wax and wane. Plan accordingly.
The golden years become lower-middle-class life revisited. That’s a bittersweet ending.
It is predicated on the assumption that you dislike what you are doing during the most physically capable years of your life. This is a nonstarter – nothing can justify that sacrifice.
If you spend your time, worth $20-25 per hour, doing something that someone else will do for $10 per hour, it’s simply a poor use of resources.
I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.
Never automate something that can be eliminated, and never delegate something that can be automated or streamlined. Otherwise, you waste someone else’s time instead of your own, which now wastes your hard-earned cash. How’s that for incentive to be effective and efficient?
Simon received the Nobel Prize in 1978 for his contribution to organizational decision making: It is impossible to have perfect and complete information at any given time to make a decision.
Becoming a member of the NR is not just about working smarter. It’s about building a system to replace yourself.
Happiness can be bought with a bottle of wine and has become ambiguous through overuse.
Using people to leverage a refined process multiplies production; using people as a solution to a poor process multiplies problems.
Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours.
The first ten minutes of sorting through clothing was like choosing which child of mine should live or die.