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Most of the stress people experience comes from inappropriately managed commitments they make or accept.
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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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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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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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The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You don't actually do a project you can only do action steps related to it.
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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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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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Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy.
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You can do anything, but not everything.
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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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Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.
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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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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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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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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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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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Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.
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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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