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• to get good results. We’ve learned over and over again that following through requires a deep understanding and appreciation of why—in light of the real reasons we humans don’t follow through—follow-through strategies are absolutely necessary. So before we teach you what to do, we concentrate on teaching you why you need to do it.
• Poor follow-through—consciously deciding to do something, but then not doing it—is a fact of life.
• This, of course, keeps them from exercising control over everything they should be able to control.
• that incredible disconnect between intention and action that the Surgeon General described.
• What it takes to adopt an intention and what it takes to follow through on that intention are entirely separate matters.