Best Quotes from Do Less, Get More by Shaa Wasmund with Page Numbers

‘If I was always busy and I managed to avoid wiping out, sooner or later, everything would work out.’ Seth Godin

‘The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.’ Plato

‘Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.’ Leonardo da Vinci

‘The opposite of fear is love – love of the challenge, love of the work, the pure joyous passion to take a shot at our dream and see if we can pull it off.’ Steven Pressfield, Do the Work

‘To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.’ Søren Kierkegaard

‘We must be willing to fail and to appreciate the truth that often life is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be lived.’ M. Scott Peck

‘You can’t turn off such negative thoughts with the flick of a switch.'

‘Worry less, and be more.’

‘Sometimes, life will throw you a huge challenge that will force the courageous person in you to appear, but you can also practice small acts of bravery in your everyday life.'

‘They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan.’ Paulo Coelho, The Zahir

If we’re going to achieve more by doing less, then we have to understand what really matters to us.

It doesn't have to be complicated. It might be staring you right in the face.

We spend so much of life doing what we think we should do and what other people think we should do, rather than what we really want.

When you begin to follow your own dreams, your need for approval diminishes.

What do I want to do with my life?

The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.

Don’t settle for discomfort.

Happiness isn’t a consequence of living a successful life; success is the consequence of living a happy life.

The more we can identify our own sources of happiness, joy and meaning, the more we align what we do with what we love.

Stop labelling yourself as one thing or the other and open yourself to all the possibilities that are already within you and still to come.

When we do what we love it’s so much easier to keep doing it.

You can put up your hand and ask for help... they’ll get done much more quickly that way, too.

Being happy is the best route to getting more done.

REMIND YOURSELF OF WHAT GETS YOU UP IN THE MORNING. DO LESS OF EVERYTHING ELSE AND MORE OF THAT, STARTING TODAY.

IF YOU REALLY WANT TO DO SOMETHING, DON’T GIVE YOURSELF ANY ALTERNATIVE.

LIFE ISN’T A REHEARSAL, SO DON’T HIDE YOUR DREAMS UNDER THE BED.

Trust goes hand-in-hand with confidence, the confidence to trust yourself and trust others.

It’s using all your past knowledge and experience in combination with your instincts and your intuition to stop constantly questioning and worrying and start doing.

The ability to ask for help, and simply to know it is there if you should ever need it, is a sign of true inner confidence.

You can’t be in control of everything, but you can choose what’s important to you.

You can pledge to be healthy, more attentive to the people you care about, and focus on the one thing that will have the biggest positive effect . . . But it’s quite another thing to keep doing that tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after that.

Without the right tools, we can find ourselves investing a lot of time and energy with limited results.

Focused, decisive action makes a huge difference.

These may seem like small changes, but they create a foundation of confidence and build momentum towards achieving your true goals and dreams.

Action simply makes so much more possible.

Psychologically we actually become motivated by the doing, rather than the other way round.

When you begin your day doing that one really important thing, it’s like time suddenly expands as you realize you’ve done the hardest task and you’ve still got the rest of the day.

Becoming world class at one thing beats being 'good' at ten things.

If you keep on doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep on getting what you’ve always got.

The best thing to do with mistakes is face up to them, name them and then be willing to change rather than repeat.