Quotes About Focus

Como dijo Stephen Covey: «Comienza pensando en el fin».

En Proverbios 29,18 se dice: «Cuando no hay visión, el pueblo se relaja». Esto significa que si carecemos de una visión «apasionante» para el futuro, «nos relajaremos» en nuestro interior, en tanto que careceremos de motivación y entusiasmo por lo que estemos haciendo.

Self-discipline is the ability to make yourself do what you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not.

The second rule of frog eating is this: If you have to eat a live frog at all, it doesn't pay to sit and look at it for very long.

you become what you think about most of the time.

Successful, effective people are those who launch directly into their major tasks and then discipline themselves to work steadily and single-mindedly until those tasks are complete.

On the other hand, coming into work at the last moment, reading the newspaper, drinking coffee, and socializing with your coworkers may seem fun and enjoyable in the short term but inevitably leads to lack of promotion, underachievement, and frustration in the long term.

Make work appointments with yourself and then discipline yourself to keep them. Set aside thirty-, sixty-, and ninety-minute time segments that you use to work on and complete important tasks. Many highly productive people schedule specific activities in preplanned time slots all day long. These people build their work lives around accomplishing key tasks one at a time.

Una actividad E es algo que deberías eliminar por completo. Después de todo, solo puedes tener tu tiempo bajo control si dejas de lado esas cosas que ya no es necesario que hagas.

Siempre tenemos tiempo para todo, si lo usamos bien.

You can accomplish virtually anything if you want it badly enough and if you are willing to work long enough and hard enough

The number one reason why some people get more work done faster is because they are absolutely clear about their goals and objectives and they don't deviate from them.

Your frog is your biggest, most important task, the one you are most likely to procrastinate on if you don't do something about it. It is also the one task that can have the greatest positive impact on your life and results at the moment.

Thinking continually about the potential consequences of your choices, decisions and behaviors is one of the very best ways to determine you true priorities in your work and personal life.

Identify the 20 percent of your products and services that account for 80 percent of your sales and profits. How could you sell more of them?

The first key is that goals must be clear, specific, detailed, and written down. A goal cannot be vague or general, like being happy or making more money.

A great life, a great career is built by performing one task at a time, quickly and well, and then going on to the next task.

One of your great responsibilities in life is for you to decide for yourself what it is that you really love to do and then to throw your whole heart into doing that special thing very, very well.

For you to achieve any kind of success, execution is everything.

Reserve tiempo para terminar tareas importantes cada día. Planifique anticipadamente su agenda diaria. Identifique los relativamente pocos trabajos pequeños que es indispensable hacer inmediatamente en la mañana. Después ocúpese directamente de las grandes tareas y no pare hasta terminarlas. Boardroom Reports

La delegación tiene una variedad de beneficios y ventajas. La delegación te permite ampliar tu ámbito de trabajo desde lo que puedes hacer a lo que puedes controlar o manejar. Eso significa que puedes concentrarte en hacer las pocas cosas durante tu jornada de trabajo que únicamente tú puedes hacer por tu empresa.

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.

Una de las palabras más poderosas en la administración del tiempo es la palabra «No». Diga «no» a todo lo que no sea un uso de alto valor de su tiempo. Dígalo pronto y dígalo a menudo.

Creative procrastination is the act of thoughtfully and deliberately deciding upon the exact things you are not going to do right now, if ever.