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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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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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Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.
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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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Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind.
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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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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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'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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Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things.
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Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.
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Once a week, do a thorough review of all your projects in as much detail as you need to. If you do, your systems will work. If you don't, no system will work.
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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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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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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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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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Change - even change meant to improve our lives - creates stress. We can get comfortable with our problems.
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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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There are no interruptions, only mismanaged inputs
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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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