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Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.

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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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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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The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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The better you get, the better you better get.
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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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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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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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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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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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'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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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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My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard
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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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Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications somebody didn't talk to somebody about something.
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You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.
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It's easier to change directions if you are in motion.
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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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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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You can do anything, but not everything.
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