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

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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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The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.
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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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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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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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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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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 can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.
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You don't actually do a project you can only do action steps related to it. When enough of the right action steps have been taken, some situation will have been created that matches your initial picture of the outcome closely enough that you can call it done.
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You can do anything, but not everything.
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Most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.
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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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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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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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You can do anything, not everything
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Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy.
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Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things.
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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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