Less Is Not Laziness

The opposite of Happiness is not sadness but ‘Boredom’.

So, Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness. It is a cure-all.

When people suggest you follow your passion, they are referring to doing What excites you.

Don’t ask what I want, ask yourself ...

• Not to retire early or young, but to distribute recovery periods/adventures/mini retirements throughout life on regular basis
• Not to be the boss/employee/incharge, but the owner. To own the trains & have someone else ensure that they run on time
• Not to make money only, but to...

Now, as you are constantly reading, be interactive with your brain and take out pen, paper, and vomit your thoughts subjectively about the following questions-

• Define your nightmare, the absolute worst that could happen if you did what you are considering.
• What steps you could ...

For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks.

Like- Waiting for a good time to quit your job, the stars will never align, and traffic lights will never all be green at the same time.

‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams with you to death....

It is far better for a man to go wrong in freedom than to go right in chains.

By working faithfully 8 hours a day, you may get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.

Liberty means responsibility, that’s why most men dread it.

If you must play, decide on 3 things at the start-

• D stands for Definition i.e. Design the Work Recipe.
• E is for Elimination, which provides Time.
• A is for Automation, it gives us the regular income.
• L is for Liberation, it helps in Mobility.

• What you do with your time? And
• what you do with your money?

should be 2 completely different things.

• How do your decisions change, if retirement is not an option? (Inactivity should not be a goal)
• What if you could use a mini retirement to sample your deferred life plan reward before working 40 years for it?
• Is it really necessary to work like a slave to live like a milliona...

Money multiplies in practical value depending on the number of W’s you control in your life-

1. What you do?
2. When you do it?
3. Where you do it?
4. With whom you do it?

Make a tabular plan for your dream

• of 6 and 12 months
• list upto 5 things that you dream of for each Having, Being, and Doing
• write their next action plans otherwise, they’ll only be mind plans.
• after calculation, find your target monthly and dai...

• One doesn’t accumulate but eliminates. It is not a daily increase but a daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs on simplicity- BRUCE LEE.
• Perfection is not when there is no more to add, but no more to take away.
• It is vain to do with more what can be do...

If I offered you 10 billion to work 24 hours a day for 15 years and then retire, would you do it?

Of course not- you couldn’t.

Alternate periods of Activity and Rest are necessary to survive, let alone thrive.

• Be Effective rather than Efficient. Apply Pareto’s Law- 80/20 Principle to everything you do.
• Parkinson’s law- A task will swell in importance and complexity in relation to the time allotted for its completion e.g. If for a project, I give you a week or a single day. You’ll be able t...

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone- Henry David Thoreau.

A delegated task must be time-consuming and well-defined.

Steps to start and automate the business-

Step 1. Pick an Affordably Reachable Niche Market

Step 2. Brainstorm (do...

Retirement is the worst-case scenario insurance, it's like becoming physically incapable of working and needing a reservoir of capital to survive.

Retirement can’t be a goal. Reasons

• It means, you disliked whatever you do/did during the most physically capable years of life.
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