Quotes About Focus

Achievers do sooner what others plan to do later and defer, perhaps indefinitely, what others do sooner. The difference isn't in intent, but in right of way. Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority.

it is just time to "shut up, get up, and giddy up.

Be like a postage stamp— stick to one thing until you get there.

make doing what matters most a priority when your willpower is its highest.

do your most important work—your ONE Thing—early, before your willpower is drawn down. Since your self-control will be sapped throughout the day, use it when it's at full strength on what matters most.

You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects. The problem with trying to do too much

the ONE Thing you can do this week such that by doing it everything else would be easier or unnecessary?

con un propósito, con una prioridad y con productividad, sabiendo que puedes y debes evitar el arrepentimiento, poniendo LO ÚNICO en lo más alto de tus pensamientos y en lo más alto de tu calendario

It's one of the most prevalent myths of our culture: self-discipline." —Leo Babauta

the secret to extraordinary results is to ask a very big and specific question that leads you to one very small and tightly focused answer.

As coisas que mais importam nunca devem ficar à mercê de coisas que importam menos." Johann Wolfgang von

My goal is no longer to get more done, but rather to have less to do." —Francine Jay

Willpower is so important that using it effectively should be a high priority. Unfortunately, since it's not on will-call, putting it to its best use requires you to manage it.

We lose our willpower not because we think about it but because we don't. Without appreciating that it can come and go, we let it do exactly that. Without intentionally protecting it every day, we allow ourselves to go from a will and a way to no will and no way.

Researchers estimate that workers are interrupted every 11 minutes and then spend almost a third of their day recovering from these distractions. And yet amid all of this we still assume we can rise above it and do what has to be done within our deadlines.

What's the ONE Thing I can do today for [whatever you want] such that by doing it everything else will be easier or even unnecessary?

The ONE Thing = Extraordinary Results" or "The Success Habit Will Get Me to My Goal.

A balanced life is a lie.

From age 14 through the Beijing Olympics, Phelps trained seven days a week, 365 days a year. He figured that by training on Sundays he got a 52-training-day advantage on the competition. He spent up to six hours in the water each day. "Channeling his energy is one of his great strengths," said Bowman. Not to oversimplify, but it's not a stretch to say that Phelps channeled all of his energy into one discipline that developed into one habit—swimming daily.

Great success shows up when time is devoted every day to becoming great.

The trick to success is to choose the right habit and bring just enough discipline to establish it. That's it. That

extraordinary success is sequential, not simultaneous. What

Researchers estimate we lose 28 percent of an average workday to multitasking ineffectiveness.

find the lead domino, and whack away at it until it falls.