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When do you feel good about yourself? Simple, daily acts like washing your car or letting someone else go ahead of you in the checkout line can make you feel downright virtuous. And that's the point. If you want to feel good about yourself, do something to trigger that feeling!

The date was July 16, 2008. It was late in the afternoon and I was sitting in my hotel room in Louisville, Kentucky. I was scheduled to speak that evening to 1,500 school principals, but I was a little "down in the dumps." My life was ready to meet Patrick Henry Hughes. I needed a hero and I found one for the ages.

What worked yesterday won't necessarily work today. Good vaccines become ineffective against adaptive viruses. Even the best major league pitchers eventually give up a hit if they don't constantly revise their strategies. The tendency to do more of what made you successful is natural, but what made you successful may not keep you successful.

Do you feel your life has been shackled by what you were conditioned to believe when you were young? Maybe the conditioning was even more recent than that. The time has come to unchain the elephant.

The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex. But the payoff and rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous. For this reason, you must adamantly refuse to work on tasks in the bottom 80 percent while you still have tasks in the top 20 percent left to be done.