Peter Osenev

“What gets measured gets managed. —PETER DRUCKER, management theorist, author”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“Personal importance, or taking things personally, is the maximum expression of selfishness because we make the assumption that everything is about “me.” During the period of our education, or our domestication, we learn to take everything personally. We think we are responsible for everything. Me, me, me, always me! Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try to impose our world on their world. Even when a situation seems so personal, even if others insult you directly, it has nothing to do with you. What they say, what they do, and the opinions they give are according to the agreements they have in their own minds. Their point of view comes from all the programming they received during domestication. If someone gives you an opinion and says, “Hey, you look so fat,” don’t take it personally, because the truth is that this person is dealing with his or her own feelings, beliefs, and opinions. That person tried to send poison to you and if you take it personally, then you take that poison and it becomes yours. Taking things personally makes you easy prey for these predators, the black magicians. They can hook you easily with one”
― Miguel Ruiz, The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

“My mission is to create a world where there are no problems only projects.”
― David Allen, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

“A computer expert with the ability to create a one 100 million dollar empire in his mind could walk up to customs in New York with only the clothes on his back and say: nothing to declare. He could walk into this country or any country with 100 million dollars worth of value between his ears and in terms of capital or goods have nothing to declare”
― Brian Tracy