Basic Principles from the Power of Less
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Limits simplify your life, making it more manageable and meaningful.
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Limits focus you on what's actually important.
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Limits make you more effective and helps you stay on the path to achieving your projects and goals.
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Life without limits is weak and diluted, by learning to focus yourself within your limits, you will increase your mental strength and efficacy.
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P1:
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By setting limitations, we must choose the essential. So, in everything you do, learn to set limitations.
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By choosing the essential, we create great impact with minimal resources. Always choose the essential to maximize your time and energy.
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Once you have determined what is essential, work to eliminate everything that is not essential.
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Focus is your most important tool in becoming more effective. Learn to harness your focus like a laser on one task at a time.
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Create new habits to make long-lasting improvements in your life.
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P6:
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Start new habits in small increments to ensure success. Large, enduring change must be built gradually.
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Commitments
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Any agreement you make or obligation you take on is also a burden on your time. Time is precious.
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Goals & Projects
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Which Projects will have the most immediate, highest impact?
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Finances
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Financial awareness and discipline are skills that can and should be developed.
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Internet Usage
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With the constant distraction of the Internet readily available, it is important to be aware and manage our internet usage and media consumption.
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Clutter & Belonings
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Living in an untidy space and owning too many things that are unnecessary detract from peace of mind.
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Start by examining your projects and task lists and asking "What among these are the highest-impact, important, positive, and of long-term relevance to my life and path towards success?"
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Compile a list of your projects that meet this core criteria and work to focus your efforts on these.
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Start with writing down all of the "essentials" you have identified in your life. These should be congruent with your values, goals, and passions.
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Once you have really decided what is important in your life, simplication is theoretically easy: Simply cut out everything else!
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Choose the biggest-impact habit and resolve to focus on it for 21 days.
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Write down your plan: What are you doing each day? When? What will trigger the behavior? Who will you report to?
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Post your habit publicly and tell as many people as possible!
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Report on your progress daily!
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Celebrate your new habit! 21 days of success = a habit formed.
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Limit yourself to fewer goals and you will achieve more.
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Concentrate on one major goal in your life at a time.
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Break this goal down into concrete steps: Take it from 5yrs -> 2-3yrs -> 1yr -> 90 days -> 30 days -> 7 days -> 1 day.
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Make sure you are taking some action on your goal every day!
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Select only 3 projects at a time to focus on. Write these on a "Focus List" while all other projects are on an "On Deck" list.
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At least one project should be closely tied to your Mission.
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Finish what you start! Focus solely on these three projects and do not add new projects to the "Focus List" until you have seen all three to completion.
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Select 3 Most Important Tasks (MITs) at the beginning of each day and resolve to finish them.
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Complete other small tasks only after the MITs are completed.
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Focus is the determining factor in completing a project, achieving a goal, or creating a new habit.
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In an age of endless multi-tasking, we must train our mind to focus on the present and the ask at hand, to single-task instead.
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Focus on your Most Important Tasks first thing in your day. Don't do anything else until these are completed.
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When working on a task in a time block, eliminate all other distractions (phone, internet, etc).
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If you feel the urge to switch to another task, stop yourself, take a deep breath and refocus on the present.
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If things come up that you may need to address, simply record them in your "stuff" to be processed later.
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Process your "stuff" to empty regularly so it does not build up and weigh on your mind.
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If something urgent pulls you from your current task, leave a quick note so it is easier to transition back to where you were.
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Take deep breaths, quick breaks, and stretch every now and them. Stay sane!
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Like any habit, being fully present requires effort and time before it becomes your natural state.
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Do one thing at a time, what you are doing right now and nothing else. When you eat, just eat. Pay attention to taste and texture, take your time. Every activity is practice.
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Be aware! When your mind drifts from the present, that's ok. Gently allow those thoughts to pass and then return to what is at hand.
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Put up physical reminders, post-its, and other things to remind you of your goal.
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There is no failure, only setbacks. Focus on celebrating doing, on every small success.
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Keep Practicing!
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Set your MITs first thing in the morning (or at the beginning of your productive time).
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Limit yourself to three tasks with at least one being tied to your Mission
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Focus on accomplishing these tasks above and before all else.
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Eliminate distractions and Single-Task!
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