Here are some of the topics that I can discuss at my The Joy of Not Working Speech in Istanbul on November 26.

Most of these come from my book The Lazy Person's Guide to Success: How to Get What You Want Without Killing Yourself for It.

• Ordinary career success is a real good job; real career success is a real good life.
• Most success costs too much.
• The conduct of society is a poor precedent for living a happy life.
• The most creative shortcut to success is to think more about it.
• Hard work is no match for relaxed, creative action.
• The more creative your thinking, the fewer your cares and worries.
• Security is a kind of death.
• Creative loafing is good for your cash flow.
• Money doesn't talk; it just whispers.
• Money solves all problems except all those that it doesn't solve.
• Financial insanity has its own big following - including you and me.
• Your best purchases will turn out to be the ones that you never made.
• There's more to life than having it all.
• Being successful at work is irrelevant if you are a failure at home.
• To work is human, to loaf divine.
• Busyness is the last refuge of unproductive and unfulfilled people.
• The top 10 worst Uses of your time.
• The top 10 best uses of your time
• Why 90 percent of things worth doing aren't worth doing well.
• All things worth doing well get screwed up when you overdo them.
• Your most powerful success tool is the 80-20 rule.
• Slow down and your days will be longer.
• The journey toward success should feel better than to arrive.
• Only fools are in a hurry to get to anywhere worth going.
• Life's a breeze when we put half as much time into simplifying it as we do into complicating it.
• Be happy while you are alive because you are a long time dead!

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