The reason this is so liberating, for anyone with even a hint of perfectionism, is that it means you get to give up on the exhausting struggle to take charge of your life, so as to steer it in a new direction. You get to abandon all hope of one day finding the perfect time management system– or perfect relationship, job, neighborhood, etcetera– and

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I’d like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their sit

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Change sucks. It requires one to step into the unknown. To twist and turn into a new transformed self, team or firm. To leave the safety of the known path. Lift anchor and sail into a foggy horizon with no guarantee of safe harbor. Difficult as it is… Irrelevance is worse.

Funding yesterday at the cost of tomorrow is like starving one’s children so ... See more

if we want to build optionality, perversely, we first have to deliberately constrain our choices. Here are some ways I have pruned my own possibility tree at various points: Banishing junk food from the house Blocking distracting websites Eating the same meals every day Refusing to own a car Not keeping up with fashions Foregoing overdrafts and cre

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