In short, develop your confidence that you're going to get done what needs to get done because you've always manage to do so in the past.This knowledge will get you through even the bleakest of situations, and before you know it, you'll have mastered the trick of finding the 165% of effort demanded of you. Now if only your paycheck matched that percentage effort...

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