| 1) Look at one problem at a time. Learn how to | | | | have success. Often we get stuck when we just don't |
| sharpen your focus. You can choose whichever | | | | like our options: we may hang onto relationships with |
| problem you wish to address first. Sometimes you | | | | people we love even when we're miserable, or we |
| may want to pick the easiest thing to get it out of the | | | | may hang onto business deals or jobs that don't work |
| way or to help you feel more confident in dealing with | | | | for us. Sometimes we live in places we don't like just |
| the more challenging problems. At other times you | | | | because it's familiar. But when you've been unhappy, |
| may wish to pick what is most important to you first, | | | | usually it is better to cut your losses and create |
| particularly if time is a factor. | | | | change. |
| 2) Be decisive. Not being decisive wastes time and | | | | 4) Make simplifying your life a part of your daily routine. |
| indecisiveness sets a pattern of low confidence. | | | | As you go through your day, eliminate stuff you don't |
| Encourage yourself to make small decisions quickly | | | | use, obligations that aren't in keeping with your focus in |
| and to move on, without second-guessing yourself or | | | | life, and adopt routines and get the tools you need to |
| re-deciding. For larger decisions choose a time frame | | | | make life easy. For examples, exercising every day is |
| to weigh your options, and then make the best | | | | simple because bad health is what is really |
| decision you can and stick with it unless it obviously | | | | complicated. Unused fitness equipment is clutter. Letting |
| shows itself to be wrong. No person on earth makes | | | | someone make us feel guilty so that we agree to be |
| the right decision all the time, but successful people are | | | | on a board of directors even though we don't have |
| decisive and get better at making decisions by | | | | time for it, is complicated. Learn to edit your life so it is |
| practicing. | | | | simple and so that it is how you really wish to live. |
| 3) This is a big one: don't to hang on to the problems | | | | Choose projects selectively and finish what you begin. |
| that resist solution. Learn to let go of them completely. | | | | Choose material things carefully, and always think |
| You should put your energy into areas where you can | | | | along with it what you wish to cast away. |