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Making Better Decisions

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Focus begins with being organized. Being organized means knowing each projects’ next steps. Having the next steps is the clearest path to staying focused. For as long as you have your next steps, you can operate at a high level of productivity.

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Tell people about your made-up deadlines

The act of telling people (even if they don’t care), will make you still feel accountable to your word because you spoke it out loud.

Deadlines can provide a concrete timeline for getting something done — but make your deadlines real by putting your word behind them publicly and sh...

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Say no to more “good” things

Say no. 

It’s the defense against doing too much and it assumes that if you do fewer things, you will do those fewer things better than if you did many things.

Extend this popular advice to saying no to more “good” things.

It’s easy to say no to things we don’t see the purp...

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Become dissatisfied with the lazy version of yourself

When you catch yourself being lazy, 10x what you're seeing. What if I were like this all the time? What if this is who I am now? Is this the new me?

These questions will send a jolt of holy terror through you. 

To stay focused, find something you truly love and ...

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Say yes to disparate but aligned initiatives

The Franklin approach is an effective way to say yes to many things that align with your overarching goal(s). Saying yes to one thing can light the fire under your a** to get another thing done.

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Move things out of the way of your flow

Time = productivity

Time * flow = 10x productivity

Flow packs multiple hours of work into one hour. It’s hyper-efficient. Plan for huge blocks of time and schedule calls and meetings around them.

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Who you are, what you think, feel, and do, what you love — is the sum of what you focus on.

CAL NEWPORT

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Make an email list so people depend on you

If you’re struggling to stay focused on a project (i.e., a website, an app, a book, a work of art, a side project), set up a one-page website with an email capture widget.

In a few sentences and photos, describe your goal on the landing page.

Then say something like this:

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