Unfortunately, The Plan is not my plan. My plan involves a prosperous career, weekly trips to the cinema, impromptu holidays, dinner parties with friends, and lots and lots of sex. Oh, and regular lie-ins—a luxury reserved for the rich, the old, and the unfertilized.—Hazel Hayes, Out of Love. Highlighted
Keep a counterweight job. Something effortless that covers your bills. Something you can do a few hours per day, but otherwise not think about. It gives discipline and regularity to your life.—Derek Sivers, How to Live. Highlighted
Determining what is enough is different for everyone. Enough is the antithesis of growth. Enough is the true north of building a company of one, and the opposite of the current paradigm promoting entrepreneurship, growth-hacking, and a startup culture.—Paul Jarvis, Company of One. Highlighted
When time is money, idle hours are a waste of money. This is the philosophical underpinning of all our modern stress: that time is too valuable to waste. We don’t pass time, we spend it. It’s no wonder that we don’t really have pastimes anymore.—Celeste Headlee, Do Nothing. Highlighted
We work long hours in order to make more money, not realizing that once we’ve met our fundamental needs, it is leisure time that increases happiness, not necessarily extra cash.—Celeste Headlee, Do Nothing. Highlighted