It's amazing what can happen in a minute.
Whether you adopt that routine or simply spend time considering how you can use a single minute to make your work or life easier on an ongoing basis, I recommend you give it a try.
You might be surprised what a difference a minute can make.
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Now, on to this week's ideas...
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"The only way to accomplish the macro goal of winning the game is to 100% focus on the micro goal of a single possession."
It's great to set long term goals, but once you do you better figure out how to stop thinking about them.
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"The ability to recognize that your wins might not signal that you did anything right in the same way your losses might not signal you did anything wrong is vital to learning something valuable from real-world feedback."
It's easy to get caught up developing surface skills and overlook the importance of less obvious, but equally valuable abilities.
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"There is only one recipe for a best seller and it is a very simple one. You have to get the reader to turn over the page."
The creator of James Bond knows what it takes to write things people want to read and not surprisingly he also knows how to explain the process in an entertaining way.
His tips include to avoid lingering on descriptive passages, write about what pleases and stimulates you, and create a vacuum in your life which can only be filled by creative work.
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"How close are you to achieving your potential? I was around five or ten percent. For the last 137 days, I think I got closer to about 60."
This is going to fire you up to do more with your life and work.
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"You need a philosophy and you need to write it down. And re-write it and go over it regularly. Life is too hard (and too complicated) to try to wing it and expect to do the right thing."
As someone who also publishes a blog post to share observations on his birthday every year, this Ryan Holiday post resonated with me.
He shares 32 life lessons learned from a 32-year-old including that there's something special about re-reading, you have to know what you want your day to look like, and that it's worth thinking about the things you believed strongly which you now realize you were wrong about.
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COMING NEXT WEEK TO ALL ACCESS MEMBERS...
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• How to get what you want in a negotiation
• How to master aging
• The ultimate reading list for people interested in marketing and strategy
• What a psychologist learned from decades of listening to patients
• Step by step instructions for how to conduct a better brainstorm
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