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You can do anything, but not everything.
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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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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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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 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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You can do anything, not everything
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Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.
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The better you get, the better you better get.
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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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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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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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You can fool everyone else, but you can't fool your own mind.
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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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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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Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes
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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 reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.
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Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won't simplify things.
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