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Do You Have These 6 'Mindful' Skills? Or Are You Distracted?
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Essential skills for filtering information
- Mindfulness: the awareness of context and of changes within that context.
- Discernment: the ability to recognize and anticipate the consequences of the patterns around you.
- Action: Having a bias for action and immediate implementation is how rapid learning occurs.
- Expectancy: The belief in your ability to seize or create a future outcome.
- Feedback: You shouldn’t and can’t avoid feedback if you want to learn.
- Adaptability: If you want to adjust to new norms, you’ll have to adapt to them.
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Expectancy Theory of Motivation
3 things must occur for a person to have high motivation for achieving their goals:
- You must believe you can do what it takes to achieve your goal.
- You must believe that you know how to achieve it (you have the proper methods).
- You must believe that the rewards of a particular goal are personally meaningful.
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Keystone skills
Those half dozen skills which facilitate the development of other skills. They are foundational to living a life in alignment, to having confidence and clarity, and to becoming a powerful learner and leader.
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Zero distractions. Just get that work done.
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Turning ideas into reality
When an idea becomes your obsession and purpose, and it is highly personal to you, then you can take that idea and quickly turn it into a reality.
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“You never change things by fighting against the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the old model obsolete.”
Adapting to our circumstances
Whether you’re currently winning or losing in life — you will quickly adapt to your circumstances. The brain needs novelty to thrive, otherwise, it quickly becomes stale.
The worst thing you can do is to focus most of your energy and thought on maintaining your current position or protecting your current status.
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9 Skills That Will Immediately Improve Your Life
- Thinking of your time as money
- Scheduling your energy
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