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

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Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.
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Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy.
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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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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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Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? Because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do.
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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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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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You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.
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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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Most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.
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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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You won't see how to do it until you see yourself doing it.
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You don't actually do a project you can only do action steps related to it.
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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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There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.
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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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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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