Quotes About Focus

3. Apply the 80/ 20 Rule to everything: Twenty percent of your activities will account for 80 percent of your results. Always concentrate your efforts on that top 20 percent.

4. Consider the consequences: Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences, positive or negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all else.

If I could do only three things on this list, all day long, what would be the third item?

5. Practice creative procrastination: Since you can't do everything, you must learn to deliberately put off those tasks that are of low value so that you have enough time to do the few things that really count.

6. Use the ABCDE Method continually: Before you begin work on a list of tasks, take a few moments to organize them by value and priority so you can be sure of working on your most important activities.

You have heard the old question, How do you eat an elephant? The answer is One bite at a time! How

7. Focus on key result areas: Identify those results that you absolutely, positively have to get to do your job well, and work on them all day long.

If a task or activity has large potential positive consequences, make it a top priority and get started on it immediately. If something can have large potential negative consequences if it is not done quickly and well, that becomes a top priority as well.

8. Apply the Law of Three: Identify the three things you do in your work that account for 90 percent of your contribution, and focus on getting them done before anything else. You will then have more time for your family and personal life.

10. Take it one oil barrel at a time: You can accomplish the biggest and most complicated job if you just complete it one step at a time.

12. Identify your key constraints: Determine the bottlenecks or choke points, internal or external, that set the speed at which you achieve your most important goals, and focus on alleviating them.

13. Put the pressure on yourself: Imagine that you have to leave town for a month, and work as if you had to get your major task completed before you left.

Effective, productive people discipline themselves to start on the most important task that is before them. They force themselves to eat that frog, whatever it is. As a result, they accomplish vastly more than the average person and are much happier as a result.

16. Technology is a wonderful servant: Use your technological tools to confront yourself with what is most important and protect yourself from what is least important.

17. Focus your attention: Stop the interruptions and distractions that interfere with completing your most important tasks.

19. Create large chunks of time: Organize your days around large blocks of time so you can concentrate for extended periods on your most important tasks.

20. Develop a sense of urgency: Make a habit of moving fast on your key tasks. Become known as a person who does things quickly and well.

Long term thinking improves short term decision making

21. Single handle every task: Set clear priorities, start immediately on your most important task, and then work without stopping until the job is 100 percent complete. This is the real key to high performance and maximum personal productivity.

Go through your life regularly and practice "creative abandonment": Consciously determine the activities that you are going to discontinue so that you have more time to spend on those tasks that can really make a difference to your future.

Si tu objetivo no está por escrito, no es nada más que una vaga fantasía.

La disciplina efectiva es la voluntad de obligarte a pagar el precio, y hacer lo que sabes que debes hacer, cuando debes hacerlo, te apetezca o no.

The ability to set goals and to make plans for their accomplishment is the master skill of success.

Resiste la tentación de gastar tiempo leyendo cosas que no son de valor inmediato o de relevancia para tu vida y trabajo.