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1 QUESTION FOR YOU
Sometimes we are too hard on ourselves and criticize our mistakes to an unhelpful degree. Sometimes we are too easy on ourselves and let excuses run our lives.
Which way are you leaning right now? How can you pull yourself back to center?
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“Build small habits. Make big plans.
1) Keep your daily actions small. Strive to get 1% better every day.
2) Keep your daily mindset big. Think about how you can play a bigger game.
JAMES CLEAR
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“Great work resists compression.
Great explanations are short, but potent.
Great software delivers the same outcome in fewer clicks.
Great manufacturing...
JAMES CLEAR
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“It's only work if you would rather be doing something else.
Find a way to carve a career out of what you already want to do.”
JAMES CLEAR
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“If I could talk to myself twenty years ago, I would tell myself to focus on my strengths, and not on my weaknesses; on the things I could do and not the things I couldn’t do; to strive to excel and hone those skills to the point of excellence. That this was the best s...
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We often let our emotions run through unexamined, but that robs us of valuable insight. Focus on the feeling and the context they appear so you can work towards getting rid of unhelpful patterns.
The Goldilocks Rule
We experience peak motivation when working on tasks that are right on the edge of our current abilities. Not too hard. Not too easy. Just right.
Tasks that are significantly below our current abilities are boring. Tasks that are significantly beyond our current abilities are discouraging.
The Goldilocks Rule for staying motivated
We experience peak motivation when we are performing actions that are right on the edge our current abilities.
Not too difficult, not too easy.
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