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2107: Busyness is a Kind of Debt by David Cain of Raptitude on How and Where to Spend Your Attention

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

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Getting Things Done - Is Your Attention Draining?

As information and entertainment become more abundant, mental clarity becomes a more unusual experience. To get it back, we need to become unusually stingy with our time and attention commitments by either fulfilling them or finally dropping them. These unresolved commindments are what david allan called open loops in his zilion selling productivity bible, getting things done. Any time you can cut loose an attention draining commindment, it's like cutting a household expense. Cutting out your week day ing red at surf might be like cancelling cable.

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