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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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Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things.
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Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind.
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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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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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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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Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.
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Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.
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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 do anything, but not everything.
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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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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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You can do anything, not everything
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Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax
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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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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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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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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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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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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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