Learn about history as it will help you understand the developing future. History can be seen in many different ways. How one interprets the past, through their own bias, will dictate the future they will see.
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Make Plans In Ink
We often make plans in our head. Which is a good start. Though, for more robust and longer term planning, writing down your plan in ink is super helpful. Try it!!
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Get Things Done!
Tomorrow, when you wake up, become a hurricane with huge power and get things done. Move with speed and purpose. Focus on one thing in a sustained direction and then switch to the next thing. Keep going. Make tomorrow the most productive day you’ve had in 6 weeks!!
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Decisions Decide Destiny
Making decisions is what propels you forward. In a way, decisions are like swimming strokes. With each stretch and push you thrust forward until the next one. If you stop making decisions, like stop making strokes, you will coast, slow and then stop progressing forward.
So make more decisions. Make the decisions as quickly as you can. Though be intentional in your decisions just like you would be with an Olympic stroke. You wouldn’t go out just flailing in the pool. So gather your information and make focused, strong and meaningful decisions.
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Planning Ahead
You’ll spend less, feel better and reduce stress if you can plan ahead.
Christmas cards are a great example. If you plan ahead, you’ll have time to make or buy cards that you love to send. If you’re making your card, you won’t have to pay for instant production. You can opt for the cheaper 2-3 day production.
Also, you will pay less for postage with a lot of lead time. You won’t have to use a courier, express service or overnight delivery. You can pay the least and know it will get there in time.
Not planning ahead, and acting on it, will cost you more time, more money, more stress and many missed opportunities. You may even have to pay penalties or fines. (Think about parking tickets. You pay less if you pay quickly. A good incentive).
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Party Season!
It’s a festive time of year with lots of parties to attend and plenty of good cheer.
If you have drinks, it can be good to remember the three drink rule. More than that and you could find yourself driven home by a friend, a taxi, the police or someone’s Dad. Oh my!!
Don’t slip onto Santa’s naughty list this late in the year!
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Meet People
Meeting people can be the key to your future. It is in the exchange of ideas, capital, assets, time and energy that things start to get cooking.
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Learn By Writing
Writing helps you become more precise. Word selection is important. You can really develop a concept through writing notes about it. You can reflect back on those notes too.
You may want to adjust, amend or add to those notes. By dating the notes you can see what you thought at a given point in time.
Writing also requires thought so you are more likely to remember the key points when you write them down. Then when you review those written points they will enter your mind once again, helping to cement their place in your memory.
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Have You Actually Thought About It?
How quickly can we get into defending our position on a matter, when we may not have thought it through that much?
Did we do any research outside of our normal echo chamber? Was there any attempt at looking at it logically without the noise? Did we actively listen to opposing thoughts and try to find common ground?
Be mindful you’re not holding on to arguments because you would like them to be true more than they are actually true.
Most things can be agreed in the round, it’s just the percentages that we differ on. And sometimes those aren’t far apart either!
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Seek Peaceful Existence
When this is the number one priority for all people around the world, we will have the greatest era of peace and prosperity, safety and security.
When even a few disgruntled people want something more than peace and place it as their highest value, we will have trouble and possibly war.
It only takes one bad apple to spoil the whole darn bunch.
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