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| − | Previously, I wrote the essay [[Essay: Cut toxic people out of your life and replace them with edifying achievers who inspire you|Cut toxic people out of your life and replace them with edifying achievers who inspire you]].
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| − | Develop list of negative/neutral/positive people in my life that I spend a significant amount of time with. Limit the amount time spent with negative people and neutral people. Increase the time to positive/achieving/godly people. Video on this topic is at: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDVtpNIBTIg Show Me Your Friends and I Will Show You Your Future]
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| − | *[http://sidsavara.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/researchsummary2.pdf - Goal, action commitments, and weekly reporting study] - People with written goals, action commitments and weekly progress reports to a friend saw a '''80.95% improvement''' over control group which had no written goals, no action commitments and no weekly progress reports
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| − | '''1.''' The positive effect of accountability was supported: those who sent weekly
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| − | progress reports to their friend accomplished significantly more than those who
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| − | had unwritten goals, wrote their goals, formulated action commitments or sent
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| − | those action commitments to a friend.
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| − | '''2.''' There was support for the role of public commitment: those who sent their
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| − | commitments to a friend accomplished significantly more than those who wrote
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| − | '''3.''' The positive effect of written goals was supported: Those who wrote their goals
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| − | accomplished significantly more than those who did not write their goals.
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