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As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. —Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anxiety is caused by a lack of control, organization, preparation, and action.
Healthy skepticism is often the best way to glean the value of what’s being presented—challenge it; prove it wrong, if you can. That creates engagement, which is the key to understanding.
(2) directing yourself to make front-end decisions about all of the “inputs” you let into your life so that you will always have a workable inventory of “next actions” that you can implement or renegotiate in the moment;
So pre-deciding what is wanted in interactions where input can come from at any time
A major factor in the mounting stress level is that the actual nature of our jobs has changed much more dramatically and rapidly than have our training for and our ability to deal with work.
Most of us have, in the past seventy-two hours, received more change-producing, project-creating, and priority-shifting inputs than our parents did in a month, maybe even in a year.
The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. —Edward Gibbon
In practice, however, the well-intentioned exercise of values thinking too often does not achieve its desired results.
Chaos isn’t the problem; how long it takes to find coherence is the real game.
Swing is a state of arrival.
Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.
A challenge for many may be the lack of a reference point as to when they fall out of the productive state.
You’ve probably made many more agreements with yourself than you realize, and every single one of them—big or little—is being tracked by a less-than-conscious part of you. These are the “incompletes,” or “open loops,” which I define as anything pulling at your attention that doesn’t belong where it is, the way it is. Open loops can include everything from really big to-do items like “End world hunger” to the more modest “Hire new assistant” to the tiniest task such as “Replace porch lightbulb.”
Anything that does not belong where it is, the way it is, is an “open loop,” which will be pulling on your attention if it’s not appropriately managed.
most likely because they aren’t aware of the prices paid for neglecting that practice.
