The Secret To Achieving Your Dreams: Don’t Try. Seriously.

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Why Goals Are Critical For Focus In this book, my thesis centers on the belief that “Focus” is becoming a lost concept. It’s being drowned out by iPads, apps, noise and buzz. I believe that those who make an effort to master the concept of focus have a greater propensity to take action, succeed and [...]

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Get Things Done Like a Zen Master

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The Link Between Dreams and Reality There’s one item that represents a link between your dreams and reality. One thing that you must do every single day to fulfill your purpose. That one thing is to take action. And the ultimate tool for taking action is a to-do list. To-do lists aren’t just for people [...]

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57 Questions You Should Ask Yourself

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Walking through walls A focused person is one who walks through walls because they know where they’re going and why. Nothing can prevent them from reaching their destination. They secretly tell themselves, “This is what I’m doing; this is where I’m going. If anyone wants to join me, fine.” Of course, their attitude isn’t one [...]

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An Interview With Scott Young on Life and Focus

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About Scott H Young In brief, Scott Young is a speed-reading, vegetarian, holistic learning, productivity hacking university student. For the last three years, Scott’s been experimenting to find out how to get more from life. You can find his books and articles at his personal website here.

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Setting Focused Goals

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Why you should read this chapter: We’ve all been in a state where we’re content with life, but want more. At the end of the day we ask ourselves what else could there be? In this book, we outline how you can get focused, finish projects and establish focused habits; but what about goal setting? [...]

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Here’s How to Finish Anything You Start

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Why you should read this chapter We all know the feeling–the feeling that we’re incapable of finishing projects. In this chapter, you’ll learn how to finish the projects that you start. You’ll find that it’s not necessarily about finishing what you start. It’s about starting what you’ll finish. We’ll first take a look at the [...]

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Email and Focus

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Why you should read this chapter There’s thousands of applications out there for email productivity. You’ll find long sales letter pages preaching the next “magic bullet” or “ultimate email productivity success system.” Yet, most productivity applications do a better job in confusing chaos than solving chaos. It’s clear that email is taking over a significant [...]

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Flashcards for Focus

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Why should you read this chapter? We’ve already covered a variety of exercises that help one focus in our age of distraction: Handwriting Ideas Writing Reading Exercising Now, we’ll cover a profoundly underrated and often-overlooked exercise that helps the mind focus and get the day started on the right foot: the concept of using flashcards [...]

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The Three Online Wells of Knowledge

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Why should you read this chapter? In an age of wiki’s, blogs and cogs, we’re presented with a surge of information. And the rate in which this information is presented hampers our ability to sift through the noise, and uncover knowledge. With the internet comes noise. Yet, I argue that knowledge can also be sifted [...]

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Twitter, As We Knew It, Is Dead: The 7 New Dependable Ways to Use Twitter

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Why should you read this chapter? Today, more than ever before, we’re presented with new web apps and tools that promise to help get things done. The truth is, they do the exact opposite. In the chapter below we’ll learn how to truly leverage Twitter for results. This will allow you to focus more on [...]

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