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Why You Should Stop Setting Large Goals

By Dave Asprey — 2018

If you’re looking to make a lasting change, start small.

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Finish What You Start: The Art of Following Through, Taking Action, Executing, and Self-Discipline

Practical tactics to grow your willpower, stop procrastination, focus like a laser, and achieve whatever you set your mind to. Following through and finishing what you start—more valuable skills than you realize.

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Peter Hollins
2018
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The Power of Focus: How to Hit Your Business, Personal and Financial Targets with Absolute Confidence and Certainty (Revised 10th Anniversary Edition)

More than 600,000 people around the world have been captivated by the simple, practical, and profound strategies contained in the original bestseller, The Power of Focus.

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Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Les Hewitt
2012
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The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It

Informed by the latest research and combining cutting-edge insights from psychology, economics, neuroscience, and medicine, The Willpower Instinct explains exactly what willpower is, how it works, and why it matters.

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Kelly McGonigal
2013
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Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Have you ever: • found yourself stretched too thin? • simultaneously felt overworked and underutilized? • felt busy but not productive? • felt like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas? If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the...

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Greg McKeown
2025
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POMODORO TECHNIQUE - My Favorite Tool to Improve Studying and Productivity

The Pomodoro Technique is one of my favorite ways to beat procrastination and maintain productivity and focus. The pomodoro technique utilizes alternating focus and break times of 25 and 5 minutes, respectively.

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2016
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Driven to Distraction at Work: How to Focus and Be More Productive

Are you driven to distraction at work? Best-selling author Edward M. Hallowell, MD, the world’s leading expert on ADD and ADHD, has set his sights on a new goal: helping people feel more in control and productive at work.

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Edward M. Hallowell
2015
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Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results. Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task.

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Cal Newport
2025
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Your Goal Guide: A Roadmap for Setting, Planning and Achieving Your Goals (Goal Defining, Productivity, Work from Home)

One of the biggest reasons goals fail is that we often don’t put enough thought into what we really want before diving in. Your Goal Guide by Debra Eckerling starts with that first, crucial step: figuring out your goals and putting a plan in place.

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Debra Eckerling
2025
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3 Tips to Maintain Focus from Steve Jobs - Inc.

The late founder of Apple shared his secrets for maximizing focus and productivity.

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2021
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Stay Focused: 11 Psychological Tips

Do you have troubles staying focused? Students, entrepreneurs, employees, and even professors. Everyone from all walks of life struggle from staying focused. The obvious answer being distraction is all around us. Technologies and the busy life as we get older.

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2017
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