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In other words, it’s not enough to simply determine which activities and efforts don’t make the best possible contribution; you still have to actively eliminate those that do not.
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Anyone can talk about the importance of focusing on the things that matter most — and many people do — but to see people who dare to live it is rare.
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Our highest priority is to protect our ability to prioritize.
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Think of a journal as like a storage device for backing up our brain’s faulty hard drive. As someone once said to me, the faintest pencil is better than the strongest memory.
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“My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.”
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The pursuit of success can be a catalyst for failure. Put another way, success can distract us from focusing on the essential things that produce success in the first place.
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