You can do anything, but not everything.
Use your mind to think about things, rather than think of them. You want to be adding value as you think about projects and people, not simply reminding yourself they exist.
You can fool everyone else, but you can’t fool your own mind.
Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy.
Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks – cutting loose debris that’s impeding forward motion.
The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity.
Every decision to act is an intuitive one. The challenge is to migrate from hoping it’s the right choice to trusting it’s the right choice.
The reason that deadline actually can work very well for you is what it forces you to do is make decisions.
Want freedom? Get organized. Want to get organized? Get creative.
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.
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.