Large goals are practical in a special way. If they really belong to you, they have more power to get you off your butt than "reasonable", "sensible", half-hearted ones do.Aivan totta. Tämän muistiinpanokirjan läpikäynnin olen nimittäin tehnyt yhtenä aamupäivänä ja lähes yhdeltä istumalta.
When money serves as a proxy, when it serves as a symbol for what one really wants, there will never be enough.Jep.
The good life is when you get up in the morning and can't wait to start all over again.Jep. Ei tainnut vaan 16-vuotisen työsuhteen aikana olla yhtäkään tuollaista päivää. Onneksi ohimennyttä elämää.
I don't believe you live the good life by doing what you can do; you live it by doing what you want to do. Relying on your skills to guide you is simply unacceptable.Jep.
Shrinking our notion of what is essential to the good life provides your best opportunity to budget. Question everything you spend money on. Reaching financial goals means living beneath your means. It's that simple.Rahaan päästyä ja vaihteeksi lähteen (Kiosaki) tuntien
Rich people acquire assets. The poor and middle class acquire liabilities, but they think they are assets. An asset put money into your pocket. A liability takes money out.Erittäin olennainen ero.
Don't clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can't see tonight.Hyvä idea, mutta iteroituna tarkoittaa, ettei koskaan uskalla siivota, kun materiaali voi joskus muuttua merkitykselliseksi. Eli pitäisi pantata tätä muistikirjaakin odottamassa hetkeä, jolloin nyt ohitetut sivut tuntuvat taas yhtä fiksuilta kuin 17 vuotta sitten.
Piles are an interesting phenomenon. They usually appear for two general reasons: either no system is in place to handle the influx of information, or you are being lazy and not working the system.Lainaus lienee ohjekirjasta, jonka systeemeihin pinot eivät kuulu. Oman kokemukseni mukaan ne voivat muodostaa ihan toimivan systeemin. Mutta kun pinoja joutuu siirtämään, homma todennäköisesti ei ole kondiksessa.
Material possessions demand our attention. They need to be put away, cleaned, maintained, and repaired. And the more possessions we have, the more time we need to spend caring for them. The feeling that you need to do something with your possessions can really sap your energy, leaving you feeling physically tired and emotionally drained.Hyvä ohje on siis
Eliminate before you add.Toimii tavaraan ja muuhunkin.
Follow the rule "Do it or delete it". Before you automatically transfer a task from one daily list to another, determine why you haven't started it or if it even needs to be done.
Drift.
Allow yourself to wander aimlessly.
Explore adjacencies.
Lack judgement.
Postpone criticism.
Getting good at most things takes practice over time. You can't suddenly improve on your normal best technique just because it's a "special occasion", so don't even try.Ja
Love your experiments. Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.Ja
Make the right decision, not the best decision. People can spend months debating the 'best' decision without actually arriving at any decision. Ever decision involves risk. And there are 10 ways to do something, 8 of them will probably work. So pick one of the 8 and get going. Life's too short. You have more decisions to make after this one.Ja
If you don't know you have it or you can't find it, it is of no value to you.
Know the difference between wasting time and enjoying time.Tämä pitäisi aktiivisesti muistaa.
Changing or renaming a task can make a difference in the way we carry out that activity.Hmmm... jos keksisi testatuskeissin....
The more expert you are at a task, the longer it often takes, simply because you know how to usefully spend more time at the task.Valitettavaa (tavallaan), mutta totta.
To uncover your intuitive point of view, you can flip a coin - not to make the decision for you, but so you can register your gut reaction to the result. How do you feel when one option drops out? If you are disappointed, ask yourself why.Tämä vinkki on pysynyt muistissa, mutta olenkohan sitä koskaan käyttänyt?
Answers to many big problems usually are found by asking a few simple questions - as long as they are the RIGHT questions.Kuullostaa syvälliseltä ja hienolta, mutta onko se sitä?
When you simply are not in the mood to tackle the project, remember: Once you start something related to the project, no matter how small that portion may be, you are no longer procrastinating.Olipa armollinen pätkä. Pari sivua myöhemmin saman tapainen.
When faced with an apparently hopeless situation, take action, any action.Tämä yläpuolella
Realize that it doesn't matter what happened to you of who did it to you, the only thing that matters is what you do about it.Tough love -latteus, mutta totta silti. Sopivasti (tarkoituksella?) samalla sivulla on alimpana vielä tärkeämpi opastus:
Consider the wisdom of doing absolutely nothing!
Procrastination can be defined as putting off what you want most for what you want at the moment. If we continually put off doing high priority tasks by doing low priority tasks instead, we are procrastinating.Tämä selvä, mutta kääntöpuolella sivua oli vaihtoehtoinen määritelmä.
Procrastination is the intentional and habitual postponement of some important task that should be done now.Tavoista puheen ollen
A habit: something we do automatically with little, if any, forethought. Something devoid of conscious choice.Ja koska kertaus on opintojen äiti
How we spend our time is CHOICE - an exercise of our free will.Tahdon selventämiseksi neuvo
When faced with a particularly difficult or time consuming task, motivate yourself by answering "what's in it for me?", and tying it in with your inner-directed goals instead of externally imposed imperatives.Ja prokrastinaatioon tavallaan palaten
The root cause of most avoidance is fear. Fear of failure, success, rejection, anger, embarassement or any negative emotion.
Remember that each project expands to the time allotted to it, so set a limit for yourself.Jep. Valitettavasti projektini eivät kunnioita itse asetettuja rajoja ja ulkoisilla rajoilla puristan maailmalle B-laatua. Viisasten kivi löytämättä.
Check your self-talk. Do you frequently say "I gotta...", "I should..." or "I have to..."? Replace this self-talk with "I choose to..." and recognize you are at choice about what you do.Lopun englannissa on jotain outoa, mutta itse asia tärkeä. Elämä on valintoja, mihin ajatukseen sopii jatkoksi
Stop and take the time to really think through what you're doing.Ja tavallaan myös
Budget your time like you are paying for it, because you are, in personal wear and tear, in precious hours you might be doing something you enjoy more.Mutta jos aikaansa käyttää ylenmäärin miettimällä sitä, mihin aikaansa käyttää, niin metsään menee.
Getting a life is vital. People without them are boring; they have nothing to talk about, too much time to worry, and tend to whine a lot. Curiosity and the willingness to dig for information is key to getting a life.Bravo! Yksi parhaista tähän asti ja toivoisin voivani mainita kirjoittajan.
What do you love enough to do it for free? List the things you would do happily even though you failed at them.Tässä oli ripaus originaliteettia.
If we act as if each action of our life has critical consequences then we would have a much better chance of thriving.Täh? Jos joka ikistä tekemistään pitäisi kriittisenä, käpertyisi aika pian nurkkaan eikä tekisi enää mitään. Minä ainakin.
The twin actions of accomplishment are the intake of information and the exercising of our will. Most people do one or the other.Latteus vai ei? Monilla sivuilla näyttää olevan niin informaatiovapaata ainesta, että tästä projektista tulee lyhyempi kuin luulin. Ja pääsen heittämään muistikirjan roskiin...
There are no great reasons to delay pursuing your dream.Oh, really?
Clutter: Anything you own, possess or do that does not enhance your life on a regular basis.Jep. Lainauksen arvoinen siksi, että mukana on sana "do".
I am enough.Voi jeesus, affirmaatioteksti. Koskaan en ole kokeillut, joten en tiedä toimisiko. Pitäisikö yrittää? (Myöhemmällä sivulla: Affirmations are positive statements of fact as you intend them to be. They must be in present tense because the subconscious can only operate on the present, never the future.)
I have enough.
I know enough.
I do enough.
I am worthy of money and success and it flows to me easily and effortlessly.
Don't give in to the "should's". Don't do things or get involved with causes because you think you should. Ask yourself "Is this something I really want to do?"Tämän olen omaksunut perusteellisesti enkä tiedä milloin.
Get over mistakes. Remember that what seem like mistakes to us are sometimes happy accidents of the universe.Joo-joo, montakohan varianttia tästä vielä löytyy?
Don't do your living in the future.Tämä oli kirjan ainoa huomioliputettu sivu. Miksiköhän? (Valitettavasti lainausten lähteitä en ole merkinnyt.)
Learn to slow down. While sloth is generally considered a vice, being constantly busy is not necessarily a virtue. Being busy is often used to avoid self-examination.
A major step toward financial freedom is about getting back in touch with your money and understanding that you have the power to decide how to use it.Toisin sanoen on ymmärrettävä, että kaikki kulutus on päätöksiä eikä itsestäänselvyyksiä. Jos rahaa ei ole A:han, niin pitää tiedostaa, että sen kuluttaminen B:hen ei ole välttämättömyys.
Without taking action chances are one can predict the results (usually not much). Once you decide to take action, to participate wherever possible, there's no predicting what might come about (often much).No, tämähän vastasi kysymykseen. Parempi touhuta kuin olla touhuamatta. Ehkä on ollut vaiheita elämässä, jolloin tämä totuus on unohtunut, mutta lapsesta asti olen kyllä yrittänyt monenmoista.
Don't make perfection a goal unto itself. Embrace mistakes, failures and imperfections.Ja-da, ja-da.
When people buy items they are trying to resist, they tend to buy them in small packages, regardless of the fact that larger packages are a far better bargain.Ja välillä isojen pakkauksien edullisuusmielikuvaa hyväksikäytetään hinnoittelemalla ne kalliimmiksi. Mutta erityisesti karkkihyllyillä on kyllä monesti huomannut aikuisille suunnattuja minipakkauksia, jotka ovat ylihintaisia. Hinta on osa "I'm worth it" -fiilistä.
Be honest with yourself about your motivation for spending. Determine if there are emotional or spiritual voids in your life that create feelings of deprivation. If that is the case, deal with those emotions directly and don't try to use spending as a way to fill the hole.Haluaisin väittää omaksuneeni tämän opin, mutta ne englanninlakritsapussit ja keksilaatikot...
