Tag: Success
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Fire drills are killing my productivity
We’ve all experienced it at least once in our lives. If you haven’t yet, it will happen to you too. You start making progress on that important project or very important task. You finally get into the zone; That place where magic happens, incredible amounts of creativity begins to flow and everything seems to be going as planned. Then, without warning, BAM,…
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To do lists and dreams verses goals
I like to write down my ideas and action items on paper. Sometimes my family kids me about the lists I keep, but that’s okay because they help me stay focused on what needs to be done. I seem have lists for many occasions: grocery items daily to do items short term to do items long term to do items…
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Clearing your mind for success
A pair of motivational books, “Getting Things Done” and “The Success Principles”, emphasize the need to clear your mind of all unfinished business so your mind can focus on the present as well as the future. To use a Windows analogy: it’s like having a process running that’s associated with a program you installed a long time ago, but aren’t using…
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Distractions slow down your progress
The other day I was reading “The Success Principles” by Jack Canfeld. This is a great book by the way. It has 435 pages covering 64 chapters. I’m over half way so I should be done with it in a few more weeks. Remember the turtle principle. Anyway, Jack was talking about distractions and how they can control your life and affect…
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Reading for success
I’ve heard it said that one way to achieve success is to read a book a week. I haven’t quite mastered reading a book a week. For me, it’s more like one or two books a month. I subscribe to the way of the turtle, “Slow and steady wins the race.” My personal goal is…