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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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Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.
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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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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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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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You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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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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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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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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Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things.
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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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Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind.
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You don't actually do a project you can only do action steps related to it.
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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 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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It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community.
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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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There is no reason ever to have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought.
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