- It’s 100% off if you don’t buy it.
- Not wanting something is as good as having it.
- Someone else’s success isn’t your failure.
- A question opens the mind, a statement keeps it closed.
- Time spent on things you can’t control takes time away from things you can.
- Being creative is just combining interest with initiative.
- Success, like happiness, cannot be pursued. It must ensue.
- Value compliments and insults the same.
- Consuming information won’t make you smart, applying it will.
- Be happy with what you have, while you work for what you want.
- Life is too short to not be pursuing the best opportunity you know of.
- Inspiration is a productivity multiplier, but it’s perishable. Act quickly.
- Minimalism isn’t about owning nothing, it’s about nothing owning you.
- Demotivated because of how long it takes? The time will pass anyways.
- People don’t care what you can do, they care about what you can do for them.
- How much you eat affects your size, how much you move affects your shape.
- Not having the time for it is another way of saying it’s not important.
- Choose consistency over intensity, because consistency compounds.
- Most traditions are solutions to forgotten problems.
- You were born in one day, you will die in one day, you can change in one day.
- Yesterday is gone, tomorrow isn’t promised, today is all there is.
- Focus on nothing when it doesn’t matter, so you’ll focus better when it does.
- More choices often lead to less action. Do more by doing less.
- It’s not the thing itself that upsets you, but your interpretation of it.
- Focus is repeatedly saying no to almost everything.
- You can either build your dream, or help someone build theirs.
- Stop trading time for money, start trading value for money.
- Learning how to learn is one of the best investments of your time.
- Your circumstances have nothing to do with your emotional state.
- Discipline is choosing between what you want now and what you want most.
- The real value of money is what you can afford to no longer do.
- If you lower your expectations, you’ll rarely be disappointed.
- Creativity is an infinite resource—the more you spend, the more you have.
- Every ‘no’ improves your ability to fulfill on a future yes.
- The gap between where you are and where you want to be is closer than you think.
- Your ideas are worth nothing without the will to act on them.
- Be interesting to others by being interested in them.
- Every single person you meet knows something you don’t.
- Speak when you have something to say, not when you want to say something.
- Mediocrity is the path of least resistance, also making it the most competitive.
- Being busy is not a badge of honor—it’s a lack of freedom.
- Your thoughts and feelings are choices. Control them or they’ll control you.
- You don’t lack motivation, you lack a better reason.
- Time is your most valuable resource, spend it wisely.
- Admit when you’re wrong, show humility when you’re right.
- Your brain doesn’t fill up with more information, it expands along with it.
- If it takes less than 5 minutes, don’t schedule it, do it now.
- Your biggest competitor in life is yourself.
- Life only gives you what you decided you could have.
- The internet removes the barrier from how much you can learn about anything.
- Ignore the noise, people will criticize you no matter what you do.
- Avoiding stupidity can often be a better strategy than seeking out brilliance.
- If you have time to consume, you have time to create.
- There’s no right or wrong time, there’s just time and what you choose to do with it.
- You can steal all the ideas you want, but action can only come from within.
- Get comfortable with changing your mind after learning new information.
- Food fuels your brain, information fuels your mind. You are what you consume.
- Read to find new ideas, write to understand them, implement to learn from them.
- Your current habits are a sneak peek of your desired future.
- The best teachers are your previous mistakes.
- Working hard doesn’t get you anywhere if you’re working on the wrong thing.
- Being alone is physical, feeling alone is mental.
- Silence is a blank canvas for your thoughts.
- If it doesn’t feel like work, no one can compete with you.
- Compare upwards and feel envy, compare downwards and feel grateful.
- You are not what you say or think, you are what you do.
- There are no million dollar ideas, only million dollar executions.
- What you believe is what you settle for.
- Saying yes benefits others, saying no benefits you.
- The quality of your mind determines the quality of your life.
- Being great is just being consistently good.
- Spending time on things that buy you time is always a good use of it.
- The dots only connect in retrospect.
- Consuming puts you to work for the internet, creating puts the internet to work for you.
- Hours don’t equal output.
- Luck favors those in motion.
- The only difference between creators & consumers is the willingness to publish.
- If you never get bored of learning, you’ll never get tired of living.
- The more you move, the easier it is to keep moving.
- The only productivity hack you need is enjoying what you do.
- How you do anything, is how you do everything.
- Beliefs are more about belonging than they are about truth.
- Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
- Do many things that you like to find the few things that you love.
- Your first impression isn’t your appearance, it’s your energy.
- You’re not bad at something, you’re just new to it.
- Death is the price we pay for life, learn to make peace with it.
- The sooner you pay the price, the less it will cost you in the long run.
- Motivation more often comes after starting, not before.
- Integrity is being the same person no matter the circumstance.
- Increase your rate of success by increasing your rate of failure.
- The cost of anything in life is either money, time, or attention.
- Discipline is doing what you hate to do as if you love it.
- The less you have to work with, the more you’ll do with what you have.
- Absorb what’s useful, discard what isn’t, add what’s uniquely yours.
- Most bad things in life come from too much or too little of any one thing.
- If you’re reading this, you have everything you need to start.
- Peace is the absence of desire.
- No one owes you anything.
- See #99.
