What preoccupies us is the way we define success.” — Arianna Huffington - Benjamin P. Hardy

As opposed to selling away our futures to have high quality stuff, we’d be better off reducing the quality of our stuff in order to improve the quantity and quality of our time.

Use this rule if you’re often over-committed or too scattered. If you’re not saying ‘HELL YEAH!’ about something, say ‘no.’ When deciding whether to do something, if you feel anything less than ‘Wow! That would be amazing! Absolutely! Hell yeah!’ — then say ‘no.’” — Derek Sivers19

In his book The Powers of Two, Joshua Wolf Shenk said, “When you speak of what you want, and even one person hears, it may begin a generative loop.”15