Focus Only On The Task At Hand
• Let go of the irrational belief of figuring everything out before you start. You can’t figure out all the questions until you just start.
• Focus on step one and then jump to the next depending on the progress you have made. This reduces the levels of anxiety and stress which lead to burn out, confusion and cause us to give up before we even start.
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All through life, we’ve been taught consciously and subconsciously that in order to learn something we have to know everything about it when that’s not always the case. Andrew Kirby hits the nail on the head in this linked video.
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