Quotes About Lifestyle

At age 68, I expect to be strapped to the couch with the remote control like Jim Royle.

Although they can be very healthy I believe the current focus on gluten free lifestyles is a little misplaced. I see an awful lot of people that would benefit much more from a glutton free lifestyle.

data reveals that the average Type 2 diabetic consumes between 75%-90% of all their daily calories as carbohydrates.

As a society, we are spending billions of dollars on medications that ineffectively clear sugar from the bloodstream when the simplest, most effective way to prevent the disease or put it into remission is by preventing sugar from ever getting into the bloodstream by not putting it into our faces in the first place!

1,000,000 in the bank isn't the fantasy. The fantasy is the lifestyle of complete freedom it supposedly allows.

I will take as a given that, for most people, somewhere between six and seven billion of them, the perfect job is the one that takes the least time.

the major fears of modern man could be boiled down to two things: too much e-mail and getting fat.

The concept of lifestyle design as a replacement for multi-staged career planning is sound.

My original intention with The 4-Hour Workweek (4HWW), The 4-Hour Body (4HB), and The 4-Hour Chef (4HC) was to create a trilogy themed after Ben Franklin's famous quote: "Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." People constantly ask me, "What would you put in The 4-Hour Workweek if you were to write it again? How would you update it?" Ditto for 4HB and 4HC. Tools of Titans contains most of the answers for all three.

Lifestyle Design is thus not interested in creating an excess of idle time, which is poisonous, but the positive use of free time, defined simply as doing what you want as opposed to what you feel obligated to do.

The perfect day is caffeine for 10 hours, alcohol for 4. It balances everything out perfectly.

If you are accustomed to working 50 weeks per year, the tendency, even after creating the mobility to take extended trips, will be to go nuts and see 10 countries in 14 days and end up a wreck. It's like taking a starving dog to an all-you-can-eat buffet. It will eat itself to death.

La cuestión, por tanto, es: ¿Cómo consigo alcanzar el estilo de vida de libertad absoluta que tienen los millonarios sin tener un millón de dólares de partida?

Am I going be the kind of guy who doesn't exercise ever? Or not? And if the answer is 'not,' then why not right now?

Just Because You Exercise Doesn't Mean You Deserve Sugar Water

currency of the New Rich: time and mobility. This is an art and a science we will refer to as Lifestyle Design (LD).

The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan [save and retire after 20–40 years] and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility.

It is much like goal-setting but differs in several fundamental respects: 1. The goals shift from ambiguous wants to defined steps. 2. The goals have to be unrealistic to be effective. 3. It focuses on activities that will fill the vacuum created when work is removed. Living like a millionaire requires doing interesting things and not just owning enviable things.

The concept of lifestyle design as a replacement for multi-staged career planning is sound. It's more flexible and allows you to test different lifestyles without committing to a 10- or 20-year retirement plan that can fail due to market fluctuations outside of your control.

Timothy Ferriss

Timothy Ferriss

The New Rich (NR) are those who abandon the deferred-life plan and create luxury lifestyles in the present using the currency of the New Rich: time and mobility.

Timothy Ferriss

Timothy Ferriss