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Takeaways:
- The research and experience of others is the best place to start when looking for your answer.
- A new answer usually requires new behavior.
- Great businesses are built one productive person at a time.
- Our purpose sets our priority and our priority determines the productivity our actions produce.
- Who we are and where we want to go determine what we do and what we accomplish.
— Dec 27, 2025 01:29PM
- The research and experience of others is the best place to start when looking for your answer.
- A new answer usually requires new behavior.
- Great businesses are built one productive person at a time.
- Our purpose sets our priority and our priority determines the productivity our actions produce.
- Who we are and where we want to go determine what we do and what we accomplish.
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Olivia S
is on page 156 of 240
Takeaways:
- Happiness happens on the way to fulfillment.
- Financially wealthy people are those who have enough money coming in without having to work to finance their purpose in life.
- Purpose without priority is powerless.
- The farther away a reward is in the future, the smaller the immediate motivation to achieve it.
- You're training your mind how to think, how to connect one goal with the next over time.
— Dec 27, 2025 01:33PM
- Happiness happens on the way to fulfillment.
- Financially wealthy people are those who have enough money coming in without having to work to finance their purpose in life.
- Purpose without priority is powerless.
- The farther away a reward is in the future, the smaller the immediate motivation to achieve it.
- You're training your mind how to think, how to connect one goal with the next over time.
Olivia S
is on page 124 of 240
Takeaways:
- Quality of any answer is directly determined by the quality of the question.
- How we phrase the questions we ask ourselves determines the answers that eventually become our life.
- Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.
- Start with the big stuff and see where it takes you.
-Extraordinary results require a Great Answer
— Dec 27, 2025 01:25PM
- Quality of any answer is directly determined by the quality of the question.
- How we phrase the questions we ask ourselves determines the answers that eventually become our life.
- Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it.
- Start with the big stuff and see where it takes you.
-Extraordinary results require a Great Answer
Olivia S
is on page 102 of 240
Takeaways:
- No one knows their ultimate ceiling.
- The only actions that become springboards to succeeding big are those informed by big thinking to begin with.
- What you build today will either empower or restrict you tomorrow.
- Only living big will let you experience your true life and work potential.
- Success comes down to this: being appropriate in the moments of your life.
— Dec 26, 2025 10:03AM
- No one knows their ultimate ceiling.
- The only actions that become springboards to succeeding big are those informed by big thinking to begin with.
- What you build today will either empower or restrict you tomorrow.
- Only living big will let you experience your true life and work potential.
- Success comes down to this: being appropriate in the moments of your life.
Olivia S
is on page 85 of 240
Takeaways:
- When you gamble with your time, you may be placing a bet you can't cover.
- To achieve an extraordinary result you must choose what matters most and give it all the time it demands. This requires getting extremely out of balance in relation to all other work issues.
- When you act on your priority, you'll automatically go out of balance, giving more time to one thing over another.
- Big is bad is a lie.
— Dec 26, 2025 09:53AM
- When you gamble with your time, you may be placing a bet you can't cover.
- To achieve an extraordinary result you must choose what matters most and give it all the time it demands. This requires getting extremely out of balance in relation to all other work issues.
- When you act on your priority, you'll automatically go out of balance, giving more time to one thing over another.
- Big is bad is a lie.
Olivia S
is on page 78 of 240
Takeaways:
- Willpower is always on will-call is a lie.
- Willpower has a limited battery life.
- The more we use our mind, the less minding power we have.
- You make doing what matters most a priority when your willpower is its highest.
- Do your most important work early.
- A balanced life is a lie.
- Attend to all things, everything gets shortchanged.
- Magic happens at the extremes.
— Dec 26, 2025 09:50AM
- Willpower is always on will-call is a lie.
- Willpower has a limited battery life.
- The more we use our mind, the less minding power we have.
- You make doing what matters most a priority when your willpower is its highest.
- Do your most important work early.
- A balanced life is a lie.
- Attend to all things, everything gets shortchanged.
- Magic happens at the extremes.
Olivia S
is on page 60 of 240
Takeaways:
- Success is actually a short race - a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.
- You can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.
- When you do the right thing, it can liberate you from having to monitor everything.
— Dec 26, 2025 09:46AM
- Success is actually a short race - a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.
- You can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.
- When you do the right thing, it can liberate you from having to monitor everything.
