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Why Emotionally Intelligent People Embrace the 25-5 Rule - Inc.com (No paywall) "It's all about focus. You're not going to accomplish 25 things in your life. If you really focus long-term you can do three to five big ones, maybe. And the impediment to your not having focus is numbers 6 through 25, because those are the things you're interested in. Those are your biggest potential distractions."
The key is not the numbers (25 and 5)--it's the principle behind those numbers. Namely, that it's easy to come up with things you really want to do, but it's even easier to get distracted from actually making progress on those five things, because you get caught up in the excitement, the joy, the short-term gains of things that simply aren't as important.
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