When you see yourself avoiding important tasks and issues that you feel you should be addressing, run the following checklist of possible reasons and follow corresponding unblocking procedures.
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Early in the morning, when you're browsing your to-do list, (preferably before checking e-mail), find at least one important pending issue and make a brave decision. That will start up the General - you'll need him wide awake and ready for service...
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Charateristics of The General and The Robot. Possible pressure deadlock: decide more.
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Make sure you have robot-instructions in your to-do list. In the rush of the day you'll escape items that require decisions. Using verbs is a simple way to test it.
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Mental resources for deciding vs executing. First steps: action-oriented applied to the to-do list.
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Communication responsiveness, busy-ness and focus as awareness. End of chapter and summary.
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