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Do Less Achieve More

Change Made Simple – Direct the Rider

by Stephen Mills March 4, 2010

In this article we discuss the first of the three main components of the process – Direct the Rider. Directing the rider is all about providing clarity to yourself or others. It’s about solving specific problems and taking specific actions instead of trying to boil the whole ocean.

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Change Made Simple – Overview

by Stephen Mills March 2, 2010

Switch is an excellent book with very practical advice that is made as easy to follow as you can imagine for such a broad and complex topic. I really loved this book. I bought the book at a Barnes and Noble. When I was checking out, the sales clerk said “The whole world needs to read this book”.

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Getting To Freedom by Working the System

by Stephen Mills February 22, 2010
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The bottom line is that for those things you have to do, those things for which a repeatable process can be used, you create a system that is deadly efficient and as automatic as possible. In this way you burn through those necessary tasks with maximum speed and efficiency and that frees up the rest of your time to do what you want. In my case that means no planning and no organization. Instead I do whatever I feel like doing and in the way I like to do it: playing, tinkering, and creating.

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The Brain Surgeon, the Janitor, and the Six-Inch Pizza

by Stephen Mills November 10, 2009
Surgeon

We have a hard time cutting out what is not essential because in our minds we create a story that makes everything essential. It’s not. Most of it is trivial and won’t matter in the end.

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Top 10 Ways To Clear Your Mind Clutter

by Stephen Mills October 10, 2009
Peace

Meditate – There is probably no better way to clear the clutter from your mind than meditating.  Try more extended meditation once a day, but you can meditate for short periods of time in a quite place at work if you need to.  Try five minutes in a small conference room.
Breathe – So very simple [...]

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An Optimal Balance to Your Life

by Stephen Mills October 2, 2009
Stressed

One of the biggest mistakes people make in trying to balance everything they do in their lives is trying to do it all perfectly. You feel that no matter how much time you devote to your job, your kids, or yourself that it still isn’t enough. Sorry, but you can’t be the perfect partner, perfect parent, perfect friend, perfect employee, and perfect self all at the same time. If you try it, you will fail.

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The Power of Less – Focus

by Stephen Mills August 14, 2009

Focus on one goal to achieve it, focus on a single task at a time and you’ll be more productive, and focus on the present to reduce stress and anxiety.

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Identify the Essential and Eliminate the Rest

by Stephen Mills June 2, 2009
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This is the getting things done philosophy of Leo Babauta.  I have found it to be a fantastic way to move forward in a massive way.  This goes against my perfectionist, do-a-million-things-at-once, ADD nature and so it was very hard for me to accomplish.  But if you can pull it off, it’s life changing.  Recently, [...]

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Top 10 Ways To Stop Killing Yourself With Choices

by Stephen Mills March 17, 2009
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You can put effort into the perfect decision and stew about whether it was the right decision or you can just make a quick decision and run with it. Put 1% of the energy into the same decisions and get 90% of the results. Your life is valuable so don’t throw it away on the irrelevant.

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Walk a Straight Line to High Achievement

by Stephen Mills March 4, 2009
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Do you ever notice how the most simple ideas are often the most profound?  In our tendency to make things complicated, we often completely miss the the obvious.  That is probably due to our tendency to believe it couldn’t be that simple and thus our minds simply ignore those obvious answers.
Mark Joyner’s Simpleology – The [...]

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