If-then planning, in particular, is a really powerful way to help you achieve any goal.
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Creating an if-then plan is an easy and effective way to deal with temptations.
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If-then plans are simple, easy to create, and extraordinarily effective when it comes to resisting temptation, edible or otherwise.
If that has changed - and that is a big if - then the pound could well fall in 2013.
The danger with that is if you do it over and over it becomes an "if-then" reward in "now-that" reward clothing.
Making if-then plans to tackle your current projects, or reach your 2011 goals, is probably the most effective single thing you can do to ensure your success.
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Much published research on the impact of climate change consists of confirmation bias by if-then modeling, but critics also see an increasing confusion between model outputs and observations.
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Incidentally, if you're examining which new responsibilities should be devolved to Wales - if any - then there's a feeling that it wouldn't be politic not to consider whether evidence points to any powers going the other way.
If anyone can Capello can - or rather if he can't then no-one can - was the popular view on whether the cultured Italian, who had one of the most distinguished managerial CV's in the business, could lead England to glory.
But he also exemplifies a big reason why tech is in a brutal slump that may not end until 2004--if then.
But he also exemplifies a big reason tech is in a brutal, protracted slump that may not end until 2004--if then.
And if the then-teenager did set the fire, it was not Taylor's fault that the hotel was poorly suited to deal with any kind of fire.
Despite the likelihood that the American people will not learn who has been responsible for the damage done to our security through the serial leaks of highly classified information until well after November 6th - if then, they are on notice about his priorities: Emboldening our enemies, undermining our friends and diminishing our country.
On Saturday Mr Kerry raised the prospect that if North Korea stopped its nuclear programme - "if the threat disappears" - then the US would no longer have "the same imperative... to have that kind of robust, forward-leaning posture".
Mr. ROTHAUS: I think that if somebody is gay and, you know, is living with a partner or has a partner or had a partner or, you know, is known gay socially, that - if that person then votes in what's considered to be anti-gay legislation, that it's appropriate to bring this up.
The trouble is, if he's wrong - if the spare capacity isn't there - then this policy risks making the situation worse, by pushing up inflation over the medium term, and weakening confidence in the government's commitment to cut public borrowing and re-balance the economy.
If you are a shareholder in any multinational - and you will be, if you are saving for a pension - then it is in your interest that many use accounting techniques to channel their revenues to regimes, like Ireland, the Caymans and Bermuda, where tax rates are negligible to non-existent.
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"It is difficult to abandon the idea that Litvinenko had become an agent of the British special services who got out of hand and was then eliminated -- if not by the special services themselves, then under their control or their connivance, " he said.
If self-regulation worked then presumably money managers, insurance companies and banks would be similarly self-regulated.
To turn to a specific, currently relevant example, if fixed-interest bonds are bad, but equity investments are acceptable, then what if an investor buys a non-voting equity instrument whose return is based on profit shared between him and the venture--with any profit above 6% given to the venture as a "reward"?
So there should be enough money -- and if we were wise then all that money would be there and then we -- we're going to start running a deficit as the baby boomers start retiring, but we would have accumulated all this money and everything would be fine.
If we want our judicial system to work -- if we want to deliver justice in our courts -- then we need judges on our benches.
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"We have every reason to believe -- if not on Day One, then in the very near future -- they will be issuing an order rescinding this policy, " said Amy Comstock Rick, president of the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research.
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Well if they do that - and it would be a blatant political fix - if they do that, then what we will do is actually drive this project that I am leading for Ed Miliband even further.
If the Europeans really have done nothing more on fiscal policy by then--and if the eurozone still has relatively high interest rates--the conversation may be rather more awkward for them.
"The judge-led inquiry will, of course, during the course of a year, produce some ideas about what we should do - and then I think if we can act on it on a cross-party basis. as we did last week in the House of Commons, all the better, " he said.
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If it is wrong -- if the so-called new Nifty Fifty continue to levitate -- then it will lag the market.
In my opinion, the spectacular returns many funds quote are fraudulent-if not outright, then by omission.
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If things were clear-cut then we shouldn't even bother preparing for a game.
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