chapter 7

‘S’ – Sidetrackers

This chapter focuses on removing, or reducing, what I call ‘sidetrackers’ – everything from distractions that are blocking your progress on something through to sources of real daily pain. We’ll explore some simple remedies for tackling and, where possible, removing these, so they don’t get in the way of you achieving your targets.

Connected to this, we’ll also address the lack of preparedness in our daily life that is a big creator of stress for most of us. We’ll try to use some practical examples from daily life, and I’ll suggest some new tools and techniques to remove key moments of stress to enable you to focus ...

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