G email 4/21/23

G email 4/21/23 ; When you are in control and exercise and focus your choices, you become the king. You become a noble person. You become a master of your future, and master of your time, and will recognize the fruits of your labor. Act the park, look the bird, and be the part. That being said, you need to make sure that your choices are made with the forethought, judgment, and values.

— from Decisions & Choices (Decision/Choice/Focus/Forethought/Consequences)

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And keep one old frame over all of it: everything has its purpose and its proper time and place — lakol zman — a season for working and a season for resting, each in its turn. Then forethought. When you make your choices with forethought, sound judgment, and your values firmly in mind, you become the master of your own future and your own time, rather than a passenger in someone else's plan. Think the consequences through before you act, the good and the bad alike — and never dismiss the small inputs, because, as Bruce Barton said, when you consider what enormous consequences flow from little things, you begin to suspect there are no little things at all. […] Decide, then act now. A good plan executed today beats a perfect plan next week; act without hesitating. Protect your focus and forethought. Automate the small choices, spend your energy in your circle of influence, and choose with forethought, judgment, and values. Use simple sorting labels. Run incoming demands through quick buckets — critical, necessary, desirable, out — so the trivial never crowds out the vital; and weigh a choice partly by whether it helps you avoid future frictions down the road. — Decisions & Choices (Decision/Choice/Focus/Forethought/Consequences)

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