I value self-discipline, but creating systems that make it next to impossible to misbehave is more reliable than self-control.

Every time I find myself stressed out, it's because I do things primarily driven by growth.

Relative income uses two variables: the dollar and time, usually hours.

For all of the most important things, the timing always sucks. Waiting for a good time to quit your job? The stars will never align and the traffic lights of life will never all be green at the same time. The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.

Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear.

If it's important to you and you want to do it 'eventually', just do it and correct course along the way.

Role models who push us to exceed our limits, physical training that removes our spare tires, and risks that expand our sphere of comfortable action are all examples of eustress—stress that is healthful and the stimulus for growth.