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"How do you get yourself back on track when you are demotivated and distracted by every shiny object in your line of sight?"
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"How do you get yourself back on track when you are demotivated and distracted by every shiny object in your line of sight?"

SQUIRREL! what if you SQUIRREL! can't get momentum because there SQUIRREL! are so many cool things to SQUIRREL!

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Russell Nohelty
Aug 25, 2025
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I saw this on social media the other day.

I replied with a nice response, but as I thought about it, there was more to say. I know a lot of you struggle with this, so this is what I would say if it wasn’t social media, and I had 3,000 words to say all the things.

Here is my annotated response, with my annotations in blue below.

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