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“You'll achieve much more by being consistently reliable than by being occasionally extraordinary.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

“Treat your body like a house you have to live in for another seventy years.” He added, “If something has a minor issue, repair it. Minor issues become major issues over time. This applies equally to love, friendships, health, and home.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

“The arrival fallacy is the false assumption that reaching some achievement or goal will create durable feelings of satisfaction and contentment in our lives.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

“Never let the quest for more distract you from the beauty of enough.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

“the ideal future end looks remarkably aligned: Time, people, purpose, health.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

“In a famous articulation often attributed to Peter Drucker, the Austrian-born management guru, “What gets measured gets managed.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

“The greatest discoveries in life come not from finding the right answers but from asking the right questions.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

“Ironically, that busyness, and the scattered attention it creates, is the very reason you lack control over your time—it is the maker of the modern struggle.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth

“Close your eyes and imagine your ideal day at eighty years old (or one hundred, in the case of the ninety-year-old!). Vividly imagine it. What are you doing? Who are you with? Where are you? How do you feel? The exercise forces you to begin with the ideal future end in mind—it establishes a personal definition of a successful life that can be used to reverse-engineer the actions in the present to achieve that desired end.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

“Treat your body like a house you have to live in for another seventy years.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth

“If the answer to Would I do this right now? is no, say no. If the answer is yes, take it on.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

“Once you’ve achieved a baseline level of financial well-being, more money is unlikely to meaningfully affect your overall happiness.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth

“To start, schedule one short block per week for Consumption and one short block per week for Ideation. Stay true to the purpose of the block. Own that before increasing the presence of these types of time in your schedule.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

“From there, extend the periods to two hours (my personal maximum) or four hours (an ambitious target) as your focus muscle strengthens.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

“Thriving is not an end state—it is a continuous journey.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth

“Always remember,” she said, “everyone we love, they are on loan to us for a short period of time. They are gone in the blink of an eye.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

“I had prioritized one thing at the expense of everything.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

“The first rule of compounding: Never interrupt it unnecessarily. —Charlie Munger”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

“Never fear sadness, as it tends to sit right next to love.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth

“Tip 2: Increase Creation Time Creation is what propels us forward with more interesting projects and opportunities. We all need more Creation Time in our days. As you batch Management Time, carve out distinct windows for Creation Time. Block them on your calendar. Don’t check your email or messages during them. Focus on creation during your Creation Time.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

“When a measure of performance becomes an explicit, stated goal, humans will prioritize it, regardless of any associated and unintended consequences.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth

“The freedom to allocate time according to your preferences—to choose how you spend it, where you spend it, and whom you spend it with—is the ultimate goal. This is the desired end state of true control over your time.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth

“Creation is where new progress is found. Thriving organizations have a focus on Creation Time and ensure that Management Time doesn’t infringe on it.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

“Curiosity keeps us happier, healthier, and more fulfilled. If curiosity were a pill, all the world’s pharmaceutical companies would call it a super-drug and clamor to sell it.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

“Type 1: Management Management Time is what most of us spend the majority of our professional lives in. It is a staple of large organizations. Typical activities of Management Time include: Meetings Calls Presentations Email processing Team and people management”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

“The Paradox of Effort: You have to put in more effort to make something look effortless. When you realize this, you start to do things differently.”
― Sahil Bloom

“Mahatma Gandhi famously said, “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

“The consequences of the modern struggle—of perpetual busyness, digital alerts, and scattered attention—are dire. In Time Smart, Ashley Whillans, a researcher and professor at Harvard Business School, notes the steep costs of time poverty on the individual: “The data I and others have amassed show a correlation between time poverty and misery. People who are time poor are less happy, less productive, and more stressed out. They exercise less, eat fattier food, and have a higher incidence of cardiovascular disease.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

“The case for walking is abundantly clear. If there is one single habit that you can build that will immediately create space, enhance your creativity, reduce your stress, and improve your overall Mental Wealth, it is a daily walk.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth

“Every single evening, at the end of your day, open your journal (or favorite digital tool or application) and write down three simple points: One win from the day One point of tension, anxiety, or stress One point of gratitude”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life