Break it down
The task will seem less daunting if we tell ourselves that we are going to only spend five minutes working on it.
We’ll find ourselves continuing to work past the committed time that we told ourselves.
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"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. " ~ Abraham Lincoln
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