You don’t actually do a project; you can only do action steps related to it.
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.
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.
When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.
If we didn’t have any stress, we’d never grow and you’d probably wouldn’t test your mettle and you’d probably wouldn’t come up with a lot of creative stuff that people come up with by being somewhat on the edge.
Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does.
Decision-making when things show up instead of when they blow up is actually a habit that can be developed and enhanced. The trick is to get used the clean feeling of having decided, instead of sitting on a fence.
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.
Review your list as often as you need to get them off your mind.
Focusing on your values may provide you with meaning, but it won’t simplify things.
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.
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.
Virtually every problem that would show up in your business can be traced back to communications; somebody didn’t talk to somebody about something.
Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds.
It’s easier to change directions if you are in motion.
Mosquitos ruin the safari.
A lot of people have nothing very well organized, and a lot of people have nothing, very well organized.
Anything that does not belong where it is, is an “open loop” pulling on your attention.
Stress such as you experience in exercise is what creates builds focus, strength, and the capability for expanded expression; and the same is true for any kind of performance.
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.