Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.

Productivity = creating value and delivering it to people. All other busywork is unproductive fluff and should be minimized.

To abandon a comfortable lifestyle that isn't deeply fulfilling is to abandon nothing.

Are you one of those people who notices the problems of the world and says ... somebody ought to do something about that? Why not you? If you feel a strong urge to see a problem fixed, then why not act on it?

Your values are your current estimations of truth. They represent your answer to the question of how to live.

Understand that relationships are more important than contracts. Business deals are relationships between people. The signed piece of paper is important, but it's merely the result of the relationship, not the cause. If the relationship crumbles, the contract won't save you, although it could be very lucrative for your lawyer.

If you really believe something, you will act in accordance with that belief - always. If you believe in gravity, you will never attempt to defy it. If you claim to hold a belief but act incongruently, then you don't actually believe it. You're only kidding yourself. Casual faith isn't.