Whatever your game is, play hard and play to win. Stay within the rules but play with intensity and desire.
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Category: Progress
Strong Push
Sometimes you need to give a strong push to complete a project, revise for an exam or finish a race or workout.
If it’s not very difficult or draining, both mentally and physically, you might not really understand the word strong.
It could involve two days with no sleep or six days with only 3 hours sleep a night. It will be uncomfortable but it is short term and required to ensure the goal is met in the required time.
Train your brain to push through the pain and challenges and on to the win!!!
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Put The Effort In
You must always do your best. Put in extra effort to all things. You never know who is watching and what might come of your efforts.
And you’ll build confidence and self-esteem too.
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Stick With It
There will be tough moments, times and even weeks. Regardless, stick with it. Work on things. Everything can get better.
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Close Loops
Each time we start something we are best to finish it or cancel it. We need to close the open loop.
You see, when you start a conversation, a project, a task or even an idea in your head, you open a loop. Your mind will keep coming back to this loop until it is closed in some way – completed, cancelled, accepted.
This revisiting of these open loops can drain you of energy and decision making power. That is not good. It leaves less energy for current important things. So every time you can, Close an open loop. You’ll feel lighter and be more effective.
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Celebrate!
Whether it’s a birthday, a win, closing a deal at work or an anniversary with your spouse, make sure you really celebrate for it.
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Stay Hungry
Keep your targets in your sites. Stay focused. Be relentless. Every minute counts.
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Stick To Your Daily Plan
Write out your timed plan for the day ahead. Allow 30 min in the morning and 30 min in the afternoon to accommodate overruns and unexpected calls and diversions.
Otherwise, stick to your daily plan. You may have to say no a lot and work quicker, but don’t let things slide.
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Define The Question
Do you want the world to be a better place or do you simply want it to be run the way you currently feel it should be? These can be wildly different.
Wanting the world to continue to get better is next level politics. Unfortunately, most people would rather trash every opposing or slightly different (could we say diverse) viewpoint, just so they could lead and be in charge.
Most people (maybe 80%) would probably agree with great policies, if they didn’t know which side had suggested them. Unfortunately, our tribal instincts and cultures have us preferring the tribe over the policy.
This happens in global and country politics but also in garden variety conversations with neighbours, family and friends.
Find common ground and notice the nuance. Give and take a little. The world could be a much better place if we noticed that the vast majority of people, deep down, want very similar things.
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Get Around Top Performers
Low performers drag you down (by nearly 30%!) whereas top performers bring you up (about 15%).
Makes sense. Especially if you’re the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.
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