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Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

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What would you do, day to day, if you had $100 million in the bank? b. What would make you most excited to wake up in the morning to another day?

Most inputs are useless and time is wasted in proportion to the amount that is available.

Develop the habit of nonfinishing that which is boring or unproductive if a boss isn’t demanding it.

Even if you have never considered becoming an entrepreneur in the modern sense, the DEAL process will turn you into an entrepreneur in the purer sense as first coined by French economist J. B. Say in 1800—one who shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher yield.

“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.

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.

Take an asset and cash-flow snapshot. Set two sheets of paper on a table. Use one to record all assets and corresponding values, including bank accounts, retirement accounts, stocks, bonds, home, and so forth. On the second, draw a line down the middle and write down all incoming cash flow (salary, muse income, investment income, etc.) and outgoing