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Do Less Achieve More

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 – [...]

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Change Habits Gradually for Maximum Success

by Stephen Mills February 16, 2009

I used to go cold turkey on every habit change I tried to make.  When I decided to exercise, rare though those occasions may have been, I would kill myself the first time and try to maintain that pace.  When I went on a diet I would change everything starting at the snap of a [...]

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Eliminate the Non-Essential From Your Life

by Stephen Mills February 11, 2009
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In How to Thrive by Accomplishing the Essential I discussed the philosophy of Leo Babauta that advocates a two-step processes to simplification.  Identify the Essential and Eliminate the Rest.  Here are some tips on how to eliminate the rest. If any particular task does not progress one of your essential goals it should be eliminated. [...]

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How to Thrive by Accomplishing the Essential

by Stephen Mills February 9, 2009
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You can accomplish your most essential goals and make amazing improvements in your life if you will suspend your disbelief for a short period of time.  When I first ran across the ideas that follow, I was extremely skeptical.  I thought it was impossible to implement this stuff.  It was pie in the sky philosophizing.  [...]

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The Power of Less – By Leo Babauta

by Stephen Mills January 28, 2009

I started reading Leo’s blog some time ago and I thought it was incredible.  While the jury is still out, I believe that Leo’s ideas are going to be life changing for me.  Leo’s has as written a book: Power of Less, The: The Fine Art of Limiting Yourself to the Essential…in Business and in [...]

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