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A Tired of being stressed out and overworked? Take back your to-do list and become the CEO of your life. 24 / SEPTEMBER.OCTOBER.2014 RINKMAGAZINE.COM As hard as I work every day, shouldn't I have "arrived" by now? It's a question that nags at you as you slog through each day, bound to the tyranny of your to-do list, one eye constantly on the clock. It seems all you do is work, but you have only mediocre results to show for it. Once, you had big goals and the confidence to achieve them, but now all you feel is tired, stressed and overburdened. "As you go through life, you develop habits and routines that you think will help you succeed," says Andy Core, author of the new book Change Your Day, Not Your Life: A Realistic Guide to Sustained Motivation, More Productivity, and the Art of Working Well. "Problem is, many of those patterns probably don't work for you personally. What's productive for your coworker may not work well for you, for example. Or a strategy that was effective five years ago may no longer work." Even your instincts can lead you astray, he says. But you can change habits and patterns that don't serve you. You can refocus your attention, redirect your thoughts, and generate greater motivation, energy, optimism and creativity, as well as more rewarding relationships. Figure out what's doable in a day. In Change Your Day, Core writes about a woman named Janet. She came to him hoping that he could help her find some semblance of balance. She was overworked, overstressed and overweight. "Initially, Janet was disappointed when I told her that changing her life was just too hard," Core recalls. "But I explained that turning your whole life around is too big a goal. You can't sustain that many major changes at once. Instead, I told Janet, I simply wanted her to change her day. I wanted her to re-engineer PHOTO: BIGSTOCKPHOTO.COM Overwhelming To-Do List? 13 Tactics For Getting It All Done

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