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Contents

 

Front Cover Image

Welcome

Dedication

Introduction

Part One: Pause

Hover Above Your World

1. Slowing the Spin

Reducing Your Forward Momentum

2. The Girl Who Stopped Alligator Man

The Incredible Power of a Brief Pause

3. The Day Andy Left Work Early

Stopping in Order to Speed Up

4. Frostbite in the Spring

Seeing the World as It Is, Not as You Expect It to Be

5. Multiple Personalities Are Not a Disorder

Expanding Your View of Yourself

6. Why We’re Fascinated with Susan Boyle

Recognizing Your Own Potential

7. You Don’t Have to Like Him

Where Do You Want to Land?

Part Two: What Is This Year About?

Find Your Focus

8. What to Do When You Don’t Know What to Do

Choosing Your Next Move at the Intersection of the Four Elements

9. Reinvent the Game

Element One: Leverage Your Strengths

10. I’ll Just Take the Shrimp

Element Two: Embrace Your Weaknesses

11. Heated Seats

Element Three: Assert Your Differences

12. The Pilot Who Saved 155 Passengers

Element Four: Pursue Your Passion (Desire)

13. Anyone Can Learn to Do a Handstand

Element Four: Pursue Your Passion (Persistence)

14. A Recipe for Finding the Right Work

Element Four: Pursue Your Passion (Ease)

15. What Matters to You?

Element Four: Pursue Your Passion (Meaning)

16. I’m the Parent I Have to Be

Avoiding Tunnel Vision

17. I’ve Missed More Than Nine Thousand Shots

Avoiding Surrender After Failure

18. When the Future Is Uncertain

Avoiding Paralysis

19. Maybe

Avoiding the Rush to Judgment

20. What Is This Year About?

Creating Your Annual Focus

Part Three: What Is This Day About?

Get the Right Things Done

21. Dude, What Happened?

Planning Ahead

22. Bird by Bird

Deciding What to Do

23. Wrong Floor

Deciding What Not to Do

24. When Tomorrow?

Using Your Calendar

25. The Three-Day Rule

Getting Things Off Your To-Do List

26. Who Are You?

The Power of a Beep

27. It’s Amazing What You Find When You Look

Evening Minutes—Reviewing and Learning

28. An 18-Minute Plan for Managing Your Day

Creating a Daily Ritual

Part Four: What Is This Moment About?

Mastering Distraction

Mastering Your Initiative

29. Move the Table

Avoiding the Need for Motivation

30. Never Quit a Diet While Reading the Dessert Menu

We Need Less Motivation Than We Think

31. The Nintendo Wii Solution

Having Fun

32. The One-Two Punch

Getting Started and Keeping It Going

33. Am I the Kind of Person Who…

Telling the Right Story About Yourself

34. The Hornets Stung My Mind

Getting Out of Your Own Way

Mastering Your Boundaries

35. The Time Suck of Collaboration

Saying Yes Appropriately

36. But Daddy…

Saying No Convincingly

37. The Third Time

Knowing When to Say Something

38. We’re Not Late Yet

Increasing Transition Time

39. I Don’t Want to Go to Ski Class

Decreasing Transition Time

40. We’ll Regress. We’ll Forget You. We’ll Replace You.

Managing the Tension of Relaxation

Mastering Yourself

41. Does Obama Wear a Pearl Necklace?

Creating Productive Distractions

42. Would You Smoke Pot While You’re Working?

Avoiding Switch-Tasking

43. It’s Not the Skills We Actually Have That Matter

Getting Over Perfectionism

44. Why Won’t This Work for You?

The Value of Getting Things Half Right

45. Don’t Use a Basketball on a Football Field

Staying Flexible

Conclusion: Now What?

46. You Don’t Have Ten Gold Behaviors

Choosing Your One Thing

Acknowledgments

About the Author

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