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Know Your Direction. Not Your Destination.

Darius Foroux

I think a mistake that we often make is to view learning as collecting, rather than connecting. You collect information, but you can only gain knowledge by connecting that information.

Le mouvement créé la motivation

Johann Yang-Ting

Planning is guessing

Unless you’re a fortune-teller, long-term business planning is a fantasy. There are just too many factors that are out of your hands: market conditions, competitors, customers, the economy, etc. Writing a plan makes you feel in control of things you can’t actually control.

Why don’t we just call plans what they really are: guesses. Start referring to your business plans as business guesses, your financial plans as financial guesses, and your strategic plans as strategic guesses.

Extrait de : Fried, Jason. « Rework. »

Working more doesn’t mean you care more or get more done. It just means you work more.

Jason Fried – Rework

Genius: one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration

Appreciate the journey toward your goal/s, rather than treating it as something only to be endured.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Albert Einstein

Every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Why do we work 8–9 hours a day so that we can earn free time, while we endlessly waste that hard-earned free time?

We are not given a short life but we make it short.

Darius Foroux

You don’t have an innate passion that you should “follow,” instead, your passion follows you.

Benjamin P. Hardy

Memento Mori

When you close your hands slightly, most people will see the letter M begin to form in the folds of their skin. In the Middle Ages, monks began their days by staring at those Ms on their palms while meditating on two Latin words: Memento Mori.

Remember you must die.

It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

Seneca

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

Joshua J. Marine

The 2-Hour rule

Once a week, usually on Thursdays, I block out a 2-hour period of my day just to think.

In the evening, I remove all possible distractions, especially electronics like my phone and my laptop, and I basically lock myself in a room to question my work and my lifestyle with a pen and a notebook.

Here are a few questions I reflect on:

  • Am I excited to be doing what I’m doing or am I in aimless motion?
  • Are the trade-offs between work and my relationships well-balanced?
  • How can I speed up the process from where I am to where I want to go?
  • What big opportunities am I not pursuing that I potentially could?
  • What’s a small thing that will produce a disproportionate impact?
  • What could probabilistically go wrong in the next 6 months of my life?

If it doesn’t suck, we don’t do it.

Le temps n’est pas de l’argent, il est la vie même et la seule manière de le gagner consiste précisément à le perdre.

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