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Ron Friedman, psychologist

“If we end up squandering those first three hours reacting to other people’s priorities for us, which is ultimately what voice mail, or email is, is a list of other people’s requests for our time, that ends up using up our best hours and we’re not quite as effective as we could be.”

RON FRIEDMAN, PSYCHOLOGIST

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