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The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

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You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.
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Change - even change meant to improve our lives - creates stress. We can get comfortable with our problems.
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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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'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'.
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People allow themselves to get distracted I think ultimately, probably the biggest thing that gets in the way of people doing what they ought to be doing at any point in time is distraction.
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Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.
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Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes
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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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A complete and accurately defined list of projects, kept current and reviewed on at least a weekly basis, is a master key to stress-free productivity.
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Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things.
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If you don't pay attention to the things that have your attention, you'll give them more attention than they deserve.
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A lot of people have nothing very well organized, and a lot of people have nothing, very well organized.
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You won't see how to do it until you see yourself doing it.
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The real issue is how to make appropriate choices about what to do at any point in time. The real issue is how we manage actions.
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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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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 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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You don't actually do a project you can only do action steps related to it.
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