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FMQ 473 The Opposite To Time Blocking

As some think time is finite, a runway that’s always getting shorter, I’ll share with you a way to find those things that we consciously choose to distract ourselves from the important work of living the best life.

But this is a 5-minute quickie to use time blocking in reverse to find out what we do all day – the diversions, the distractions – the ‘stuff’ that we do or don’t do without realizing it and then wonder where all the time went.

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#305 The Secret Of Thinking

When I thought about it I didn’t really know what deep thinking was – do you? And when I found out I hadn’t really been thinking I gave myself a real dressing down – which made me feel worse ( why do we do that to ourselves, I didn’t do it on purpose)

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FMQ 330 My Deep Thinking Is Not Working

This is a conversation, with you, unusually this time including a couple of F-bombs

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FMQ 198 Thinking without this is useless

Deep thinking, deep diving or simply taking time out to think these are all part of personal development and all this is Awesome with a capital A. You really have to don’t you? if you want to improve yourself and allow those dreams to come

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