Quotes About Focus

GOING SMALL If everyone has the same number of hours in a day, why do some people seem to get so much more done than others? How do they do more, achieve more, earn more, have more? If time is the currency of achievement, then why are some able to cash in their allotment for more chips than others? The answer is they make getting to the heart of things the heart of their approach. They go small.

If you can honestly say, "This is where I'm meant to be right now, doing exactly what I'm doing," then all the amazing possibilities for your life become possible.

Success requires action, and action requires thought. But

working at something until it regularly works for you.

vital few and trivial many.

If today your company doesn't know what its ONE Thing is, then the company's ONE Thing is to find out.

The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest.

No matter how many to-dos you start with, you can always narrow it to one. Keep going. You can actually take 20 percent of the 20 percent of the 20 percent and continue until you get to the single most important thing!

Saying yes to everyone is the same as saying yes to nothing. Each additional obligation chips away at your effectiveness at everything you try.

My goals are fueled by my dreams. I defend and protect those dreams from distractions and from interruptions from other people.

people and problems can chew up your time and drain your energy.

BIG IDEAS Distraction is natural. Don't feel bad when you get distracted. Everyone gets distracted. Multitasking takes a toll. At home or at work, distractions lead to poor choices, painful mistakes, and unnecessary stress. Distraction undermines results. When you try to do too much at once, you can end up doing nothing well. Figure out what matters most in the moment and give it your undivided attention.

In fact, you can become successful with less discipline than you think, for one simple reason: success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.

If you choose to track only two areas of your business, track your leads and your listings.

Think a Million, Earn a Million, Net a Million, and Receive a Million.

Purpose without priority is powerless.

When you act on your priority, you'll automatically go out of balance, giving more time to one thing over another.

Multitasking doesn't save time —it wastes time.

The way to get the most out of your work and your life is to go as small as possible.

Curly: Do you know what the secret of life is? Mitch: No. What? Curly: This. [He holds up one finger.] Mitch: Your finger? Curly: One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean sh*t. Mitch: That's great, but what's the "one thing"? Curly: That's what you've got to figure out.

If you were trying to talk a passenger through landing a DC-10, you'd stop walking. Likewise, if you were walking across a gorge on a rope bridge, you'd likely stop talking.

Tackling these tasks in the order we receive them is behaving as if the squeaky wheel immediately deserves the grease. But, as Australian prime minister Bob Hawke duly noted, "The things which are most important don't always scream the loudest.

In your effort to attend to all things, everything gets shortchanged and nothing gets its due.

We each have passions and skills, but you'll see extraordinarily successful people with one intense emotion or one learned ability that shines through, defining them or driving them more than anything else.