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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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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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It's easier to change directions if you are in motion.
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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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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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Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.
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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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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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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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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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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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Most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.
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Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.
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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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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 reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.
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My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard
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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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