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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'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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You can do anything, but not everything.
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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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Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind.
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My opinion is that anybody offended by breastfeeding is staring too hard
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Mosquitoes can ruin the hunt for big game.
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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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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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You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.
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Distracting reactions about anything undermine a clear mind about anything else.
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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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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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There are no interruptions, only mismanaged inputs
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Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy.
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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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A lot of people have nothing very well organized, and a lot of people have nothing, very well organized.
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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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You don't actually do a project you can only do action steps related to it.
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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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