About This Book

- 🎯 **Passion vs. Stress**: Working hard for what you love brings passion, while working hard for what you don’t care about leads to stress. - 🚫 **Misery Myth**: The belief that productivity requires misery is a harmful mindset; not every task needs to be difficult to be valuable. - ⛵ **Focus on the Present**: Don’t let worries about the future distract you from completing your current goals; clarity will come with time. - ✨ **Avoid Perfectionism**: Perfectionism can derail progress; concentrate on finishing your real goals instead of getting lost in unattainable ideals. - 🤔 **Reflect on Completion**: Ask yourself what you gain from not finishing tasks; understanding this can motivate you to complete them.

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• the size of the finish doesn’t matter. You finished and that’s an amazing feeling. The problem is that perfectionism magnifies your mistakes and minimizes your progress.
• your desk on a Monday morning before and thought, “It’s nine A.M. How am I already this far behind? How is this entire week already ruined?” Imperfection is fast, and when it arrives we usually quit. That’s why the day after perfect is so important. This is the make-or-break day for every goal. This is the day after you skipped the jog. This is the...
• Scientists call this “planning fallacy,” a concept first studied by Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky.
• That year, I published a book urging readers to start. I challenged them to get off the couch. I dared people to launch a business. I encouraged them to begin a diet or a write a book or pursue a million other goals they’d been dreaming about for years.
• I thought the biggest problem for people was the phantom of fear that prevented them from beginning. If I could just nudge them across the starting line, everything would work out. Fear was the ghost holding them back and starting was the only