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ELIMINATE ALL THOSE PETTY ANNOYANCES

       To be really great in the little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

If you are serious about being successful, start by eliminating everything you are putting up with, the things you are tolerating or enduring—those petty annoyances. You might be tolerating any number of small things, such as the overflowing in-box, the unpaid taxes you have to figure out, or even the tear in your bathrobe that nags at you every time you open your shower door and see it hanging there. Every time you see it, you think, “I’ve got to sew that.” That is an annoyance. It could be that you are also ...

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