More Quotes by Tim Ferriss
The question you should be asking isn't, "What do I want?" or "What are my goals?" but "What would excite me?
Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!
Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
Being selective-doing less-is the path of the productive. Focus on the important few and ignore the rest.
The most important actions are never comfortable.
Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.
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. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.
Ninety-nine percent of people believe they can't do great things, so they aim for mediocrity.
But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.
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.
