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It's easier to change directions if you are in motion.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
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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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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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A lot of people have nothing very well organized, and a lot of people have nothing, very well organized.
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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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Some people have to move, physically, to get something. But if you're stuck in a chair, that's not your limitation - it's simply not an optimal condition for you.
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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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