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Surprising Rules for Success

Surprising Rules for Success

  1. Retirement is the worst-case-scenario insurance.
  2. Alternating between periods of rest and activity is essential.
  3. Focus on being productive instead of busy.
  4. The timing is never right. Waiting for ‘someday’ means that you will take your dreams to the grave.
  5. Ask for forgiveness, not permission.
  6. Emphasize strengths. Don’t fix weaknesses.
  7. When things are done to excess, they often take on the characteristics of their opposites.
  8. Money alone is not the solution. We use not having enough money as a scapegoat for not working out what we want out of life.
  9. Relative income is more important than absolute income.

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