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First things first is the habit of personal management. Prioritize. Start with what's urgent and important. Keep good initiative hygiene. Fight procrastination and entropy^[1].

Respect yourself to be respected. Trust yourself to be trusted.

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[1]: Entropy created by procrastination and "letting things go" is fought by personal management

Starting work is making first things first.

First things first requires to Reduce work in process and limit Batch size

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The 7 habits of highly effective people, principle #3. My notes on the topic:

Start with important and urgent items, build public trust by building private behavior first. See trust as an account with someone, you can deposit to it by building trust, and you can withdraw by breaching it. “You can’t talk you out from issues created by your own behavior”. Successful relationships require depositing to the account. Ways to deposit: listen and understand, small acts of kindness, never break of promise.

Set the expectations to make sure people don’t get disappointed