People really do think they have to choose between high stress and high reward jobs, and low stress and low reward jobs.
Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear.
I'm prepared to do battle for a dream that is worth dreaming.
The bottom line is that you only have the rights you fight for.
To have an uncommon lifestyle, you need to develop the uncommon habit of making decisions, both for yourself and for others.
Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.