18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done (Peter Bregman, 2011)

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  • Slow down: as you may be heading the wrong direction.
  • Start over: if you are starting from scratch on today's price, will you buy it?
  • You don't have to like someone, you just have to do business with the person.
  • Find your focus this year.
  • Avoid rushing to judgement, any luck can be maybe good or bad.
  • Practice good habit of not procrastinating
    1. Do it immediately
    2. Schedule it
    3. Let it go
    4. Someday/maybe
  • When you say no, mean it, and you won't needlessly lose your time.



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