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		<title>Avoid Unproductive Entertainment</title>
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&#8220;As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.&#8221; &#8211; Seneca
We all need time to relax and rest our minds. We also must have opportunities to play and challenge ourselves physically and mentally. These [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gamble Less</title>
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&#8220;Games of chance are traps to catch school boy novices and gaping country squires, who begin with a guinea and end with a mortgage.&#8221; &#8211; Richard Cumberland
A friend of mine says, &#8220;The lottery is really just a tax for people that are bad at math.&#8221; In fact if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create Opportunity</title>
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&#8220;A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.&#8221; &#8211; Francis Bacon
&#8220;When the pupil is ready to learn, a teacher will appear.&#8221; &#8211; Zen proverb
I&#8217;m a true believer in the idea that we make our own opportunities. But I&#8217;d also say that opportunities expand at an exponential rate. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avoid Conflict</title>
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“When angry, count ten before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.” &#8211; Thomas Jefferson
“Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.” &#8211; John F. Kennedy
“I destroy my enemies when I make them my friends.” -  Abraham Lincoln
“Holding on to anger [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delegate More</title>
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&#8220;The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.&#8221; &#8211;  Theodore Roosevelt
At first delegating might seem like dumping your responsibilities to someone else. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stay Focused</title>
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“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. ” &#8211; Buddha
Staying focused on the present moment can be a challenge; we naturally multitask. Maybe it’s because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel More</title>
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one&#8217;s lifetime.” &#8211; Mark Twain
You might this suggestion is a little hypocritical because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Light</title>
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“It is better to travel well than to arrive.” &#8211; Buddha
By travel light I mean use less fuel to get you to your destination. For example, when I was a kid my dad would take us backpacking every summer in the Sierra mountains. We learned to carry everything we needed on our backs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burn Less</title>
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“Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.” Henry David Thoreau
“What is the use of a house if you haven&#8217;t got a tolerable planet to put it on?” &#8211; Henry David Thoreau
By burning less I mean everything from cars to lawn movers to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Procrastinate Less</title>
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“Procrastination is the thief of time.” &#8211; Edward Young
When you choose to live life strategically you quickly realize that time is the most limited commodity. Achieving goals requires a plan, action, a little luck and most importantly time. Much of our lives is spent doing things that don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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