You do not have to be your past. You can be someone else without anyone having to give you permission. Authorization to change is mostly an illusion. Most changes that last are bottom-up, initiated without someone else’s permission.

“bad decisions in life arise from having optimized for the wrong variable.” Do not optimize your life for other people. Do not optimize it for comfort. Do not optimize it for status. Do not optimize it for success. Do not optimize it for your current self. Instead, optimize your life for long-term self-respect.

Make a list of the top 25 actions you should take during the next three months, ordered from the most impactful to the least. Then, select the top 5 items: these become your to-do list. Finally, select the bottom 20 items: these become your not-to-do list. You are not allowed to work on your not-to-do list until the to-do list is completed. Without

People don’t want to be happy and successful. Instead, they want to be happy and successful in a particular way, thus ending up unhappy and unsuccessful.

“bad decisions in life arise from having optimized for the wrong variable.” Do not optimize your life for other people. Do not optimize it for comfort. Do not optimize it for status. Do not optimize it for success. Do not optimize it for your current self. Instead, optimize your life for long-term self-respect.

Life is too long to be lived for the short term. Life is too unique to be lived as others would.

Most frustration and unhappiness in your life will come from disrespecting the rules of whatever “game” you are a participant of – be it love, business, health, or social life.

Make a list of the top 25 actions you should take during the next three months, ordered from the most impactful to the least. Then, select the top 5 items: these become your to-do list. Finally, select the bottom 20 items: these become your not-to-do list. You are not allowed to work on your not-to-do list until the to-do list is completed. Without

You do not have to be your past. You can be someone else without anyone having to give you permission. Authorization to change is mostly an illusion. Most changes that last are bottom-up, initiated without someone else’s permission.