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63 Life-Changing Quotes on Lifestyle Design

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 63 Life-Changing Quotes on Lifestyle Design

Tim Ferriss’" The 4-Hour Workweek " has created quite a buzz recently in the blogosphere. As you might have known, the book focuses on lifestyle design, which is designing your dream lifestyle with the least possible effort. It’s not necessary to wait until your retirement1 to live the lifestyle you want. In fact, doing so might waste 20-40 years of your life. Instead, you can live your dream lifestyle much, much sooner. Of course, you can do so only by having the right attitude, strategies, and tactics.

In this post, I extract 63 life-changing quotes from the book. They will serve as reminder2 for you to apply the principles in the book. Be selective and apply what are useful for you. Tailor them to your own needs and situation.
Here they are (with minor3 wording adjustments):
Life doesn’t have to be so damn hard. It really doesn’t.
People don’t want to be millionaires. They want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.
Reality is negotiable.
Three ingredients of luxury lifestyle design are time, income, and mobility4.
Options - the ability to choose - is real power.
Each path begins with the same first step: replacing assumptions.
Less is not laziness. Focus on being productive instead of busy.
If it’s important to you and you want to do it “eventually,” just do it and correct course along the way.
Ask for forgiveness, not permission.
Emphasize strengths, don’t fix weaknesses.
Relative income is more important than absolute income.
Risks weren’t that scary once you took them.
Conquering fear = defining fear.
Define the worst case, accept it, and do it.
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
Inaction is the greatest risk of all.
Doing the unrealistic is easier than doing the realistic.
The opposite of happiness is boredom5.
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.
The most important actions are never comfortable.
Being busy is often guise6 for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.
Believe it or not, it is not only possible to accomplish more by doing less, it is mandatory7.
What you do is infinitely8 more important than how you do it.
Find your inefficiencies to eliminate them and to find your strengths so you can multiply them.
Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.
Lack of time is actually lack of priorities.
Identify the few critical task that contribute most to income and schedule them with very short and clear deadlines.
Simplicity9 requires ruthlessness.
Ask yourself: “Am I inventing things to do to avoid the important?”
Increased output necessitates10 decreased input11.
Practice the art of nonfinishing. Stopping something is often 10 times better than finishing it.
Learn to be difficult when it counts.
Do not work harder when the solution is working smarter.
People are smarter than you think. Give them a chance to prove themselves.
“No” should be your default answer to all requests.
Fun things happen when you earn dollars, live on pesos, and compensate12 in rupees.
Eliminate before you delegate.
It is more profitable to be a big fish in a small pond than a small undefined fish in a big pond.
The so-called expert with the most credibility indicators13 is the one who will sell the most product, not the one with the most knowledge of a topic.
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Don’t ask people if they would buy - ask them to buy.
Our goal isn’t to create a business that is as large as possible, but rather a business that bothers us as little as possible.
The biggest timesaver of all is customer filtering.
Those who spend the most complain the least.
Perceived size does matter.
It isn’t enough to think outside the box. Thinking is passive. Get used to acting14 outside the box.
The new mantra is this: Work wherever and whenever you want, but get your work done.
Getting what you want often depends more on when you ask for it than how you ask for it.
Being able to quit things that don’t work is integral to being a winner.
Don’t confuse the complex with the difficult. Most situations are simple - many are just emotionally difficult to act upon.
There are options. There are always options.
Fortune favors the bold.
Learn to slow down.
The biggest risk in life wasn’t making mistakes but regret: missing out on things.
For big questions, if you can’t define it or act upon it, forget it.
There are two components15 that are fundamental to enjoy life and feel good about yourself: continual learning and service.
Service is an attitude.
Slowing down doesn’t mean accomplishing less; it means cutting out counterproductive distractions16 and the perception of being rushed.
Recapturing the excitement of childhood isn’t impossible. In fact, it’s required.
Mistakes are the name of the game in lifestyle design.
Focus on great for a few things and good enough for the rest.
Happiness shared in the form of friendships and love is happiness multiplied.
Life is not a race. Do take it slower.

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1 retirement TWoxH     
n.退休,退职
参考例句:
  • She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
  • I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。
2 reminder WkzzTb     
n.提醒物,纪念品;暗示,提示
参考例句:
  • I have had another reminder from the library.我又收到图书馆的催还单。
  • It always took a final reminder to get her to pay her share of the rent.总是得发给她一份最后催缴通知,她才付应该交的房租。
3 minor e7fzR     
adj.较小(少)的,较次要的;n.辅修学科;vi.辅修
参考例句:
  • The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
  • I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。
4 mobility H6rzu     
n.可动性,变动性,情感不定
参考例句:
  • The difference in regional house prices acts as an obstacle to mobility of labour.不同地区房价的差异阻碍了劳动力的流动。
  • Mobility is very important in guerrilla warfare.机动性在游击战中至关重要。
5 boredom ynByy     
n.厌烦,厌倦,乏味,无聊
参考例句:
  • Unemployment can drive you mad with boredom.失业会让你无聊得发疯。
  • A walkman can relieve the boredom of running.跑步时带着随身听就不那么乏味了。
6 guise JeizL     
n.外表,伪装的姿态
参考例句:
  • They got into the school in the guise of inspectors.他们假装成视察员进了学校。
  • The thief came into the house under the guise of a repairman.那小偷扮成个修理匠进了屋子。
7 mandatory BjTyz     
adj.命令的;强制的;义务的;n.受托者
参考例句:
  • It's mandatory to pay taxes.缴税是义务性的。
  • There is no mandatory paid annual leave in the U.S.美国没有强制带薪年假。
8 infinitely 0qhz2I     
adv.无限地,无穷地
参考例句:
  • There is an infinitely bright future ahead of us.我们有无限光明的前途。
  • The universe is infinitely large.宇宙是无限大的。
9 simplicity Vryyv     
n.简单,简易;朴素;直率,单纯
参考例句:
  • She dressed with elegant simplicity.她穿着朴素高雅。
  • The beauty of this plan is its simplicity.简明扼要是这个计划的一大特点。
10 necessitates 4a421c24d0717e67b81bbcf227596ade     
使…成为必要,需要( necessitate的第三人称单数 )
参考例句:
  • The increase in population necessitates a greater food supply. 人口的增加需要更多食物供应。
  • Your proposal necessitates borrowing money. 你的提议使借款成为必要。
11 input X6lxm     
n.输入(物);投入;vt.把(数据等)输入计算机
参考例句:
  • I will forever be grateful for his considerable input.我将永远感激他的大量投入。
  • All this information had to be input onto the computer.所有这些信息都必须输入计算机。
12 compensate AXky7     
vt.补偿,赔偿;酬报 vi.弥补;补偿;抵消
参考例句:
  • She used her good looks to compensate her lack of intelligence. 她利用她漂亮的外表来弥补智力的不足。
  • Nothing can compensate for the loss of one's health. 一个人失去了键康是不可弥补的。
13 indicators f46872fc1b5f08e9d32bd107be1df829     
(仪器上显示温度、压力、耗油量等的)指针( indicator的名词复数 ); 指示物; (车辆上的)转弯指示灯; 指示信号
参考例句:
  • The economic indicators are better than expected. 经济指标比预期的好。
  • It is still difficult to develop indicators for many concepts used in social science. 为社会科学领域的许多概念确立一个指标仍然很难。
14 acting czRzoc     
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
参考例句:
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
15 components 4725dcf446a342f1473a8228e42dfa48     
(机器、设备等的)构成要素,零件,成分; 成分( component的名词复数 ); [物理化学]组分; [数学]分量; (混合物的)组成部分
参考例句:
  • the components of a machine 机器部件
  • Our chemistry teacher often reduces a compound to its components in lab. 在实验室中化学老师常把化合物分解为各种成分。
16 distractions ff1d4018fe7ed703bc7b2e2e97ba2216     
n.使人分心的事[人]( distraction的名词复数 );娱乐,消遣;心烦意乱;精神错乱
参考例句:
  • I find it hard to work at home because there are too many distractions. 我发觉在家里工作很难,因为使人分心的事太多。
  • There are too many distractions here to work properly. 这里叫人分心的事太多,使人无法好好工作。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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