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Don’t rob people of their problems. I am not saying we should never help people. We should serve, and love, and make a difference in the lives of others, of course. But when people make their problem our problem, we aren’t helping them; we’re enabling them. Once we take their problem for them, all we’re doing is taking away their ability to solve it.
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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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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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Our highest priority is to protect our ability to prioritize.
— Aug 25, 2026 05:24PM
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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.
— Aug 25, 2026 06:11AM
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“My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.”
— Aug 23, 2026 09:44AM
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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.
— Aug 22, 2026 06:46PM