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Agreements

As soon as you know you're not going to keep an agreement, let the other party know and renegotiate. That's not a unilateral announcement.

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Public speaking

People with stage fright make the best presenters. They obsess over the quality of their stuff, worrying about what everyone will think.

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Cars

The ones that others arrived in included a Tesla, a BMW 4, and the latest M5 Competition. When I looked up the M5, the cost averaged forty times that of my car's.

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Books 2023

To invest means to do what is safe and sure to produce a satisfactory return. Some strategies are like this by definition — like sticking to an exercise routine for at least one year. Others require a lot of learning through experimentation — like starting your own business.

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Openness

'Please wear your badges. There's a political party event in the next building. We've caught them stealing our food.'After that, the talk started.I w...

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Ambitious

Cal designed his goals to be a continued source of joy for weeks and months after completion. This secret ingredient steered him away from always only focusing on what's next.

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Books 2022

Reading 40+ books helped me learn a lot again this year. Each of the five clusters below is a new lens to bring out extra detail in whatever you put ...

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4:55

Getting up so early lets him have 2 hours to himself before his wife and son wake up. Enough time to work out and meditate. He feels less time-famished and more at ease.

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Bloom

I don't know if you ever tried to organise 20 footballers. Believe me, if you let them get into a discussion, you're not starting the game anytime soon. That's why I told my friend and the two guys he had brought to pack up and leave. Not surprising, after coming all this way, they were quite upset.

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Recover

Since December, I have been getting regular exercise. On three to four mornings a week, I get on a rented ($40 per month) spin bike and use my online subscription ($13 per month) to do a 20-45 minute workout.