This time next year, will you be wiser, more thoughtful, and living a life you dream of? Or just a year older? Always take time to sharpen the saw.
We make decisions ahead of time and don’t always realize it
We often make decisions ahead of time without realizing it. When the decision point comes, we’ve already chosen the outcome that will happen without further action.
The fire inside burns hottest
We can be spurred to action by external forces, but we perform best (and enjoy it most) when we want to do it.
Your ability to achieve results is worth more than anything you do today
Short-term gains have to be balanced with our long-term capacity for gains.
Wrap things up and move on
We all want to get more done. Here are five ways to finish up sooner so you can get on to the next big thing.
Fix the wrong one and you could make things worse
Efficiency and Effectiveness are often used interchangeably, but they’re two distinct concepts that need handled differently.
How effectively do they meet your needs?
Habits are neither good nor bad. Some just create more sideways energy than others.
They’re a means, not usually the end
Most goals don’t have the impact they should because we’re using them wrong.
He was causing the very thing he was trying to avoid
Scrooge was trying to fill a hole in his heart. He almost filled it with the very thing he was running from.
Does the company you keep spur you forward?
Three groups influence our habits, attitudes, and behavior more than any other: the Close, the Many, and the Powerful.
Blindly sticking to a practice can make a bad situation worse
Laws are universal. Principles are how we apply a law to get a desired effect. Practices are highly situational.
