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Timothy Ferriss (born July 20, 1977) is an American author, entrepreneur, and public speaker.

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What I don't like is snark for snark's sake. If you are going to make fun of me, at least be witty while doing it.

Fun, Like, Sake, Witty

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.

Difference, Differences, Life, Motivational, Remember, Slow

You don't have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you've artificially placed on your life. It's easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you're always in one place around the same people.

Believe, Done, Helpful, People, Placed, Tools

I'm not a big believer in long-term planning and far-off goals. In fact, I generally set 3-month and 6-month dreamlines. The variables change too much and in-the-future distance becomes an excuse for postponing action.

Dream, Distance, Long, Change, Variables, Postponing

I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Courage, Fear, Forehead, Inspirational, Needs, Tattooing

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.

Hours, Inspirational, Per, Time, Use, Worth

I think about willpower almost never. I realize for myself, trying to be more disciplined is pretty nebulous and it's often a slippery target. For me, I've just thought about incentives.

Nebulous, Think, Thinking, Trying, Willpower

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.

10000, Class, Lifetime, Skills, Take, World

Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear.

Day, Fear, One Thing, Resolve

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.

Already, Decide, Done, Like, People, Track

$1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.

1000000, Allows, Fantasy, Inspirational, Lifestyle

The only rules and limits are those we set for ourselves

Limits, Rules, Set

In a digital world, there are numerous technologies that we are attached to that create infinite interruption.

Digital, Infinite, Interruption, Technology, World

When you try to do something big its hard to fail completely.

Success, Marketing, Trying, Completely, Big, Fail

Do not expect work to fill a void that non-work relationships and activities should Work is not all of life. Your co-workers shouldn't be your only friends. Schedule life and defend it just as you would an important business meeting. Never tell yourself "I'll just get it done this weekend. "

Defend, Friends, Important, Meeting, Weekend, Work

People will choose unhappiness over uncertainty.

Inspirational, Life, People, Uncertainty, Unhappiness

Just because you are embarrassed to admit that you're still living the consequences of bad decisions made 5, 10, 20 years ago shouldn't stop you from making good decisions now. If you let pride stop you, you will hate life 5, 10, and 20 years from now for the same reasons.

Change, Good, Hate, Life, Pride, Reasons

Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!

Becomes, Inspirational, Motivational, Small, Take, Tasks

Lacking an external focus, the mind turns inward on itself and creates problems to solve, even if the problems are undefined or unimportant. If you find a focus, an ambitious goal that seems impossible and forces you to grow, these doubts disappear.

Focus, Forces, Goal, Impossible, Mind

It's very easy to confuse confident motion with being productive - and they're not the same thing. Productive to me means measurable outcomes that apply to my most important to-dos that positively affect my life. That's it.

Important, Mean, Outcomes, Productive, Same, Thing

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