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TOOL · CLOSING · THE BIRD'S-EYE VIEW

Day one: see the whole map.

So it's Monday morning. What do you do first? Nothing. Seven areas, one page. Write down every problem you can see.

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Illustration: the man standing alone in a town square seen from high above, every street converging on him

Day one: nothing.

Don't fix anything. Don't make a single big decision. Look at your whole life from a bird's-eye view, the way you'd look at a city from a plane, and write down every problem you can see. Don't rank them. Don't solve them. Just see them.

Day two: the smallest one.

Most men have never once looked at all of their problems in one place. Seeing the whole map is the first move most people never make. Tomorrow, start with the smallest one.

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