You are the captain of your own ship; the more you act from that perspective, the better things will go for you.
The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation. The hand is more important than the eye. . . . The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. —J. Bronowski
It seems that there's a part of our psyche that doesn't know the difference between an agreement about cleaning the garage and an agreement about buying a company
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires a great deal of strength to decide what to do. —Elbert Hubbard
Almost every project could be done better, and an infinite quantity of information is now available that could make that happen.
When people know they have a process in place to handle any situation, they are more relaxed. When they’re relaxed, everything improves. More gets done, with less effort, and a host of other wonderful...
Merely having thoughts is one thing. Consciously feeding them is quite another. You are powerful all the time, by way of your attention and intention. The question is, Toward what are you pointing tha...
Things rarely get stuck because of lack of time. They get stuck because the doing of them has not been defined.
Welcome to the real-life experience of knowledge work, and a profound operational principle: you have to think about your stuff more than you realize but not as much as you’re afraid you might. As Pet...
Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior. —Dee Hock
Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. —Saint Francis of Assisi
But if you don’t decide what needs to be done about your secretary’s birthday, because it’s not that important right now, that open loop will take up energy and prevent you from having a totally effec...
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. —Henri Bergson
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. —Mark Twain
There is no reason to ever have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought. I
The cognitive scientists have now proven the reality of decision fatigue—that every decision you make, little or big, diminishes a limited amount of your brain power.
If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. —WILL ROGERS
Most often, the reason something is on your mind is that you want it to be different than it currently is,
THE PURPOSE OF this whole method of workflow management is not to let your brain become lax, but rather to enable it to move toward more elegant and productive activity. In order to earn that freedom,...
Get a purge for your brain. It will do better than for your stomach. —Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
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