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“If you spend your time chasing butterflies, they'll fly away. But if you spend time making a beautiful garden, the butterflies will come. Don't chase, attract.”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“In life, the only two things you can control are your effort and your attitude. Everything else is not up to you.” -S. Mcnutt”
― Library Mindset, 100 Quotes That Will Change Your life

“Growth demands that you step out of your comfort zone and do the hard things.”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“People do not decide their futures; they decide their habits, and their habits decide their futures.” ― F. M. Alexander”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“Life is not a sprint but a marathon. It’s long and hard. There is no reward for the quitters who quit halfway. You must reach the finish line to achieve something.”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” - Mark Zuckerberg”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“work expands to fill the time allotted for completion. So, if you allow yourself 2 hours to finish a task, it will take 2 hours but if you only have 1 hour, you will find a way to complete the task in an hour.”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“Sleep for 8 hours, not 6. Read for 2 hours, not 4. Exercise for 1 hour, not 4. Deep work for 4 hours, not 10.” -Will Goto”
― Library Mindset, 100 Quotes That Will Change Your life

“The man who chases two rabbits catches neither.” — Confucius”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“No one can change your life. Nobody has any interest in changing your life. Their own life is a mess, so how can they change yours? You must do it yourself. It’s in your own hands. You can be lazy and wait for others to help, but you will wait forever. Get this out of your head that somebody else can help you achieve your goals. Stop being dependent on other people.”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“Most decisions should probably be made with somewhere around 70 percent of the information you wish you had…if you wait for 90 percent, in most cases, you’re probably being slow." — Jeff Bezos”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“Your work will fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” — Steve Jobs”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.” -Jim Rohn”
― Library Mindset, 100 Quotes That Will Change Your life

“The bottom line is that only you are responsible for your life. While you may be tempted to blame your friends, family, spouse, or anyone else for what you don’t do, it’s solely in your hands to take action. Although you may find some temporary relief in making excuses and convincing yourself it’s out of your hands to do anything in this situation, that’s not really true. There’s always something that you can do, and you can always do your best. Every action that you take or don’t take impacts your life and it’s up to you to take control.”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“start asking yourself questions about how you can do the things you want to do. It will force your mind to find a way.”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“What you want to achieve. How you can go about achieving it. What timescale you set yourself. How you can measure your progress. How realistic your goal is.”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“The cold water doesn't get warmer if you jump late.”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“You can’t achieve anything in your life if you don’t have a sense of urgency. You need to be patient with results and inpatient with action.”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“When you have something to say, silence is a lie.” -Jordan B. Peterson”
― Library Mindset, 100 Quotes That Will Change Your life

“If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster." — Stephen Covey”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“One of the biggest reasons people are lazy and put everything off until tomorrow is because they get too comfortable with their lives.”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“A new rule you should always follow is that whatever can be done under 5 minutes should be done now. You cannot delay the task for tomorrow. It must be done now.”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“Think about this for a few minutes: what will you regret when you’re 80 years old? Here are a few regrets that you might have: ● Not doing what you love. ● Being lazy and wasting your time. ● Not spending more time with your family. ● Not taking care of your health. ● Working hard for nothing in return. ● Not traveling when you’re young. ● Not enjoying your life to the fullest. It’s time to stop making excuses about why you can’t do the things you want to do. Instead, start asking yourself questions about how you can do the things you want to do. It will force your mind to find a way. There is never a perfect time. The best time is always now.”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“● If you don’t like your job, change it. ● If you don’t like your friends, change them. ●     If you don’t like your way of thinking, change it. ● If you don’t like your life, change it.”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“The modern devil is cheap dopamine.” -Naval”
― Library Mindset, 100 Harsh Truths of Life

“Your work will fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.” — Unknown”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“Even if you fail, that will still be better than the regret of never trying to push your boundaries. Imagine being an 80-year-old wishing you could travel the world, pursue your dreams, and live how you want to, not how other people want to.”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it.” — David Starr Jordan”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity

“Have you ever sat down alone to think about what you are doing with your life, what things you’re doing that are not improving your life, and instead, making your life worse? If you do this simple daily exercise for 5-10 minutes every day, you will achieve fantastic clarity about your life.”
― Library Mindset, The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity