This future-focused attitude often takes the form of what I once heard described as the ‘“when-I-finally” mind’, as in: ‘When I finally get my workload under control/get my candidate elected/find the right romantic partner/sort out my psychological issues, then I can relax, and the life I was always meant to be living can begin.’2 The person mired
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To procrastinate is to voluntarily delay an intended course of action—despite expecting to be worse off for the delay.
Anthony Raymond • Ikigai & Kaizen: The Japanese Strategy to Achieve Personal Happiness and Professional Success (How to set goals, stop procrastinating, be more productive, build good habits, focus, & thrive)
As we have been moving through the Focus Funnel, each stage has presented us with a critical question to answer. In the Eliminate stage, it was, “Is this task something I can live without?” In the Automate stage, it was, “Can this task be systematized?” In the Delegate stage, it was, “Can this task be performed by someone else?” If the answer to th
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