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You can tell this is a product of many hours of work! Here are a few of my favorite parts...

'Why would I be wound up? I'm either ready or I'm not. Worrying about it right now ain't gonna change a damn thing. Right? Whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen. I've either done everything I can to be ready for this, or I haven't.' (Story about Floyd Mayweather right before a big fight)

Consider a Chilipad.

Consider pre-bed drinks: Honey 1 TBSP + 2 TBSP ACV or Yogi Soothing Caramel Bedtime Tea. Sleep Master sleep mask.

Consider morning pages or 5 minute journaling.

Pick a random person and say: "I wish for this person to be happy"

"The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself. That's the moment you may be starting to get it right." - Neil Gaiman

Being busy is a form of laziness - lazy thinking and indiscriminate action. Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions.

The reason you're suffering is you're focused on yourself.

Forget purpose. It's okay to be happy without one. The quest for a single purpose has ruined many lives." - James Altucher

This from Scott Adams: http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/07/career-advice.html

Asking the right dumb question is often the smartest thing you can do. - Alex Blumberg

"Frustration is a matter of expectation." - Luis Von Ahn

Inspiration is for amateurs - the rest of us just show up and get to work. - Justin Boreta

"If you find yourself saying, "But I'm making so much money" about a job or project, pay attention. "But I'm making so much money," or "But I'm making good money" is a warning sign that you're probably not on the right track or, at least, that you shouldn't stay there for long. Money can always be regenerated. Time and reputation cannot." - BJ Novak

Don't believer everything that you think. - BJ Miller

I think the paradox is that accepting the requests you receive is at the expense of the quality of the very work - the reason for those requests in the first place. - Maria Popova

"Ours is a culture where we wear our ability to get by on very little sleep as a kid of badge of honor that symbolizes work ethic, or toughness, or some other virtue - but really, it's a total profound failure of priorities and of self-respect." - Maria Popova

Discipline equals freedom. - Jocko Willink

The public is not a threat. When you realize that we all need each other, and that we can all learn from each other, your stage fright goes away. - Sebastian Junger

If you don't give young men a good and useful group to beong to, they will create a bad group to belong to. - Sebastian Junger

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. -Robert Byrne

Exercise is important because it puts discipline in the day. I find that if the day is terrible, but I worked out, at the end of the day I'll go, "Well, I had a good workout,' almost no matter what happens. - Stan McChrystal

Follow your passion misconstrues the nature of finding a satisfying career and satisfying job, where the biggest predictor of job satisfaction is mentally engaging work. - Will MacAskill

The Dickens Process: http://www.businessinsider.com/tim-ferriss-tony-robbins-exercise-2017-1

You have 80,000 working hours in the course of your life. It's incredibly important to work out how best to spend them. - Will MacAskill

"On one level, wisdom is nothing more than the ability to take your own advice. It's actually very easy to give people good advice. It's very hard to follow the advice that you know is good ... If someone came to me with my list of problems, I would be able to sort that person out very easily." - Sam Harris

"If something offends you, look inward...That's a sign that there's something there." - Whitney Cummings

Perfectionism leads to procrastination, which leads to paralysis. - Whitney Cummings

People pleasing is a form of assholery. - Whitney Cummings

And I think ultimately, sometimes when we judge other people, it's just a way to not look at ourselves; a way to feel superior or sanctimonious or whatever. My trauma therapist said every time you meet someone, just in your head say, "I love you" before you have a conversation with them, and that conversation is going to go a lot better. - Whitney Cummings

The material is like 10% of it. Being comfortable on stage is all of it. - Whitney Cummings

Lazy: A Manifesto by Tim Kreider: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWyV_GaH7K0

"The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion." - Paulo Coelho

"Honor those who seek the truth, beware of those who've found it." - Adapted from Voltaire

General fame is overrated. Eric Weinstein

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it's time to pause and reflect." - Mark Twain

"Trying to get everyone to like you is a sign of mediocrity. You'll avoid the tough decisions, and you'll avoid confronting the people who need to be confronted." - Colin Powell

I'm in my head a lot, and it kind of sucks...so there are certain tools that I have to use to get by. I've learned in my life that there are certain things I have to do to just be out of my head and get to normal. I'm not talking about being really super-effective. Just to get to normal, I have to do meditation, I have to do some exercise. If I can get into nature, great. If I can play some tennis, better, and acting is that same way. Acting, rehearsing, playing characters, these are the things that get me out of my head and out of analyzing every goddamn thing that comes down the pike and leaves me miserable and making really bad choices. - Rainn Wilson

What would you put on a billboard? I'd put it in Times Square and it would say, "None of these companies care about you." - Mike Birbiglia

It's not about being good; it's about being great. Because what I find, the older I get, is that a lot of people are good, and a lot of people are smart, and a lot of people are clever. But not a lot of people give you their soul when they perform. - Mike Birbiglia

When things are going bad, don't get all bummed out, don't get started, don't get frustrated. No. Just look at the issue and say: "Good." - Jocko Willink