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The Principle

The most brilliant advice on how to manage yourself "Pause for five minutes at the end of every day and just think about what happened that day.” Every initiative could be evaluated using two columns: What worked and what didn’t work?

This framework has proved to be working intuitive and straightforward. Best of all, it required us to focus only on the things that were within our control.

Apply this framework to journaling and you’ll be forced to think about your behavior — what was it that you did that day that worked or didn’t?

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