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

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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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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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Most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.
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There are no interruptions, only mismanaged inputs
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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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Without a gut-level sense that you are ultimately in control of what's happening to you, you won't even consider the option that you could manage it better.
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Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax
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You can do anything, not everything
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You don't actually do a project you can only do action steps related to it.
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Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy.
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Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.
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Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.
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It's easier to change directions if you are in motion.
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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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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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Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.
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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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If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.
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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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