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Is listening to music with no words and doing something else distracting? Is that multitasking?
If you break an addiction or a habit you abhor for a while then there is a very high chance you will relapse at some point in the future.
But unless our goals are in the forefront of our mind it is easy to get distracted by all that life hurls our way.
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I’m going to make the wild assumption that most of you that are reading this email have heard someone or yourself say, “It’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey.”
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