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Every practice in the library, in one list. Narrow it by how long you have, who it is written for, and where you are right now.
When the thing is over, sit down for twenty minutes and go through it: what happened, what worked, what did not, what you will do differently. Put it in the diary, because it never happens on intention alone.
The monthly report, the school year, the audit. Write the answers where you will actually find them next time, and be specific about the point it…
Building a consequence on purpose beats waiting for life to hand you one. There is nothing more virtuous about the natural version. It just tends to arrive too late to teach anybody anything.
Take the five moves together: sooner, more often, held by someone else, big enough to notice, applied every time. Any one of them helps a bit. Two or…
Someone running just ahead of the avalanche has nowhere to stand and think. Reflection needs a bit of room, and a life with no room in it cannot make any.
This is why so much sensible advice slides straight off. Before asking what the wisest option is, something usually has to come off the pile: fewer…
Nobody decides well mid-panic. So cutting the number of panics is itself a way of making better decisions, even if nothing about your judgement changes at all.
It is slow work and it is usually the real work: fewer things said yes to, earlier starts, deadlines negotiated before they are sitting on top of…
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