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Not all decisions are the same

The decisions we spend the most time on are rarely the most important ones.

The decisions we spend the most time on are rarely the most important ones. Not all decisions need the same process. Sometimes, trying to impose the same process on all decisions leads to difficulty identifying which ones are most important, bogging us down and stressing us out.

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Sometimes the most important life lessons are the ones we end up learning the hard way.

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