Your life story and the knowledge you have acquired have a certain market value—provided they are presented in an original way. Moreover, their market value can be enough to support you financially for the rest of your life.

Author Unknown, the Idea is often attributed to Brian Tracey’s teachings
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Keep in mind that if you do something quickly and poorly, people will forget what you did quickly and remember what you did poorly. If you do it slowly and well, people will forget what you did slowly and remember what you did well.

Sergei P. Korolyov – Academic, lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer behind the USSR’s early space triumphs
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Looking for shortcuts makes you end up mediocre.
Shortcuts are not the same with more effective ways

People are living a mediocre life because they try to shrink, to be small and invisible, so that people don’t see them fail.

Discipline = the ability to keep agreements with yourself.