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6 Tips to Stop Overscheduling
We get the sense, because there is so much on our plate, that we have to be able to do a number of things simultaneously.
But the energy signal in a human’s focusing system is binary. You are either focused or you are not. If you have 10 balls in the air, nine of them are in free fall.
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