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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

“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 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“As a rule of thumb: Never think twice about making investments in yourself.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth

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― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

“Type 3: Consumption Consumption Time is one of the two forgotten types of professional time. It is where new ideas for creation and growth are planted. Typical activities of Consumption Time include: Reading Listening Studying”
― 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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth

“Leverage Parkinson’s law and work toward a batched schedule: Create discrete blocks of time each day when you will handle major Management Time activities. Have one to three email-processing blocks per day. Have one to three call and meeting blocks per day. The goal here is to avoid a schedule where the red bleeds out across every single day.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth: A Transformative Guide to Design Your Dream Life

“Denis Diderot had fallen victim to the perils of bought status—the slow, creeping thirst for more, for the next thing that would confer upon him a level of external affirmation.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth

“The most dangerous person in the world is the one who shows up every single day even when the rewards are uncertain. The one who can tolerate the most uncertainty is the one who will eventually win.”
― Sahil Bloom

“Focused, concentrated attention is significantly more powerful than scattered, unconcentrated attention.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth

“Their deeper message: Life is about direction, not speed.”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth

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

“What activities outside of work felt life-giving and joyful? Who made you feel energized? What new learning or mental pursuits sparked your interest to go deeper? What rituals created more peace, calm, and mental clarity? What physical pursuits did you enjoy? What professional or financial pursuits felt effortless (or even fun)?”
― 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

“How many folks, in country and in town, Neglect their principal affair; And let, for want of due repair, A real house fall down, To build a castle in the air?[”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth

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

“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

“Is this a world I want to wake up in? What do I need to do to be ready for it? Should I change what I’m doing today to make this future more or less likely?”[”
― Sahil Bloom, The 5 Types of Wealth