A brief pause will help you make a smarter next move.

Life isn’t just about some of you; it’s about all of you. Don’t negate, integrate.

It turns out while there’s a war going on between you and someone else, there’s another war going on in your brain between you and yourself. And that quiet internal battle is your prefrontal cortex trying to subdue your amygdala. Think of the amygdala as the little red person in your head with the pitchfork saying, “I vote we clobber the guy!” and

There’s a method of long-distance running that’s becoming popular called the Run-Walk method; every few minutes of running is followed by a minute of walking. What’s interesting is that people aren’t just using this method to train, they’re using it to race. And what’s even more interesting is that they’re beating their old run-the-entire-distance

most time management books end too early because the hardest part about managing time isn’t the plan, it’s the day-by-day follow-through: getting started, sticking to your areas of focus, ignoring nonpriorities, and avoiding the allure of unproductive busyness. Follow-through may seem easy, but it’s not. It’s where most of us fail. And yet it’s the

We do this all the time. We think someone is angry with us, so we respond aggressively to a gesture and they become angry with us. See? We were right all along. We think a customer isn’t going to give us business, so we don’t pursue them, and they don’t renew our contract. We knew it! Our neglect was justified. What can we do about it? As Einstein

the world doesn’t reward perfection. It rewards productivity.

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Why does this work? Woody Allen once said that 80 percent of success is just showing up.