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The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.
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First of all, if it's on your mind, your mind isn't clear. Anything you consider unfinished in any way must be captured in a trusted system outside your mind, or what I call a collection bucket, that you know you'll come back to regularly and sort through.
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Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy.
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Most people move actually into high performance in a crisis because that creates the kind of focus that creates high performance.
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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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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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