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You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.

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What you'll tend to avoid doing is probably the most important thing you need to do because it'll probably be the most daunting and the most potentially successful thing you could be doing and that's usually out of people's comfort zone.
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Trust yourself to do what you really feel like doing, and what you feel like doing will change. Don't, and it will plague you.
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The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control.
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It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community.
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You don't actually do a project you can only do action steps related to it.
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There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it´s getting done!
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You won't see how to do it until you see yourself doing it.
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There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.
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Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.
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Most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.
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There's a lot of reasons why deadline-driven may actually - it's not necessarily a bad thing, it just all it does is it speeds up and makes you a little proactive about decision making.
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The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.
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It's hard to be fully creative without structure and constraint. Try to paint without a canvas. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds. Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.
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Some people have to move, physically, to get something. But if you're stuck in a chair, that's not your limitation - it's simply not an optimal condition for you.
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Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.
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The problem is, is when your focus is created by a crisis, then the frontal lobe shuts down essentially, the frontal cortex which is your intuitive intelligence. So you get very clever and very stupid in a crisis. Also, you pump adrenalin into your body from what you - physiologically you'll crash.
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The better you get, the better you better get.
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Isn't it interesting that people feel best about themselves right before they go on vacation? They've cleared up all of their to-do piles, closed up transactions, renewed old promises with themselves. My most basic suggestion is that people should do that more than just once a year.
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