It is remarkably sharp. It gives bone-hitting advice from various angles. I have picked out the pieces worth hearing, so if any of them are worth taking to heart, engrave them deeply. p.46 Plan and prepare. But start now. You only need to be as perfect as you can be right now. You still will not fail.
To quickly handle the most important task first, there is no need to "warm up" (tidying the desk, checking the phone, looking at social media while preparing for work). Build momentum. Break free from old habits and, above all, create a new habit of finishing work in a hurry.
More energy is consumed when starting a task than when continuing it. The more you warm up, the harder it becomes to start. A body in motion tends to keep moving, and a body at rest tends to keep resting.
Snap out of it. Save the fussing, checking, and tidying for your first break. P.55 Stop pretending to be busy for no reason right now. You must immediately start what is important and high-priority. Make important decisions. Do work that is profound and meaningful.
According to "The Cost of Interrupted Work: More Speed and Stress" by Professor Gloria Mark of the University of California, the average time it takes to return to the original task is 23 minutes and 15 seconds.
The optimal state is when one has the intrinsic motivation to be 100 percent immersed in the task at hand. That is the moment when you are so fully absorbed in what you are doing that time seems to stop or disappear. When you fall into a state of flow, you must keep that state going for as long as your energy lasts.
Big decisions are made up of small decisions. Even when you feel stuck or under pressure, you must keep making small decisions to break out of that state. p.78 Live faithfully in the present; do not let the baggage of the past ruin your present life. Break free from the yoke. Forgive yourself and others. Do not live bound by the past. That is a shortcut to failure. According to research by Donna Bridge (professor at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine), a memory of an event is in fact not a memory of that event but a recollection (memory) of a past recollection (memory) of that event.
The past does not determine the future. Nor should you allow it to. Never mind at all what others think of you. As said earlier, they are too busy living their own lives to have the time to worry about what you think.
You should work intensively for a short time and rest as follows:
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Recover energy and emotional control.
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Devote yourself to discovering ideas and creativity.
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Do not put off what you want to do today.
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Maintain a shining, charismatic, attractive appearance.
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Live the longest and most meaningful life.
The law of vacuum prosperity. Always take a recovery period. A one-minute plan saves five minutes of time. If you do not know how to make the right decision, check big, hard, or important decisions against your vision and values. Act in line with your values. Then you can naturally focus and set priorities.
You must control your emotions well to live life the way you want. If you are too busy, the 4Ds: before doing a task, delegate, delete, and defer it.
Never do the work yourself. Instead, give the work to a busy person. How can I do that task? Can I even start that task?
-Whom can I entrust that task to?
Who has rich experience doing that task? For whom would that task really be easy? Who would enjoy doing that task? Who has already done that task?
FOMO: fear of missing out. If your life is ruled by the fear of missing a good opportunity, you cannot think and decide enough. Every choice creates action and reaction, gain and loss, positive and negative aspects, all working in equal measure in opposite directions.
The fear of missing a good opportunity often shows up in the following behaviors:
-You try to be precious to everyone.
-You decide based on competitiveness rather than vision.
-Because of low self-esteem, you make decisions based on the results of comparison with others.
-You decide gripped by jealousy, revenge, and selfishness.
-You decide without research or logical judgment.
-You decide according to the thoughts of the many others, not yourself.
-You expect unrealistically.
-You jump into things you do not understand.
-You jump into things you do not truly want to do or that you will easily give up halfway.
-You do not set a clear vision and goals.
-You idolize someone else.
-You get overly excited or discouraged.
-You become impatient and your view narrows.
There is no eternal decision. No decision is final. Testing with an open mind and the positive changes gained from the results helped companies rise to first-class status. The chance of making the best decision and action from the very start is extremely low. What is certain is that you get better (or become perfect) over time. No one remembers your first decision.
Doing something is generally better than doing nothing. Talk less, act more. There is a saying, "You cannot cook rice with words."
-Change what you can change.
-Leave alone what you cannot change.
-Keep what you do change.
Repeat small.
- Review: Before going out to a larger market or a full launch, repeat review, revision, and iteration (at least 5 times).
1_ Seek solid advice, and rather than judging, listen attentively to feedback; take advice in moderation, sleep on it overnight while thinking, and rest. Key performance indicators show the answer.
- Revise. Repeat small (97 percent of an airplane's flight is constantly correcting course). Improve one thing at a time and build an automation system.
The author's summary: You know what you have to do.
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Do not just agonize; execute.
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Remove all distractions and isolate yourself.
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Get out of the empty space.
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Start early and succeed.
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Handle the hard and difficult tasks first.
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Do not look back.
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Do not seek additional opinions.
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Do not talk. Do not make excuses. Hurry and just try it.
Laws that lead to quick decisions
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Finish more in less time.
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Reduce the time spent overthinking and regretting too late.
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Raise your overall confidence.
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Become a better parent or spouse.
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Find your ideal partner.
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Associate with the right people.
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Make time to do more of what you love.
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Repeatedly train yourself to make better, bigger, harder decisions faster and more intuitively.
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Calm your mind and reduce stress and worry.
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Maintain the health of body and mind.
"Top Five Regrets of the Dying"
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If only I had cared more about how others think of me.
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If only I had not worried excessively.
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If only I had taken better care of myself.
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If only I had not taken life for granted.
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If only I had lived faithfully in the present.
Rating 4/5. An easy-to-read self-help book. A book that tells you the secret of its author's success. There is no workbook, but it puts together its own summary at the end. If you need cold, hard advice, give it a read. I liked it.