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Decide, act, complete. Make or review your to-do list for the week, or the day or the hour. Now pick one item you can complete or one decision you can make in five minutes or less. Once you're finished, you can cross it off your list! As you take credit for each success, your sense of competence and control will expand. When your mind has fewer incompletes to keep track of, it won’t need to keep switching tasks.