Quotes About Focus

You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more things with side effects. The

Where I'd had huge success, I had narrowed my concentration to one thing, and where my success varied, my focus had too. And the light came on.

Activity is often unrelated to productivity, and busyness rarely takes care of business.

The fact of the matter is that aiming discipline at the right habit gives you license to be less disciplined in other areas.

Going small" is ignoring all the things you could do and doing what you should do. It's recognizing that not all things matter equally and finding the things that matter most. It's a tighter way to connect what you do with what you want. It's realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

It's not that we have too little time to do all the things we need to do, it's that we feel the need to do too many things in the time we have. So we double and triple up in the hope of getting everything done.

Seja como um selo de correio: fique grudado em uma única coisa até chegar ao seu destino.

There is this pervasive idea that the successful person is the "disciplined person" who leads a "disciplined life." It's a lie. The truth is we don't need any more discipline than we already have. We just need to direct and manage it a little better.

In fact, most to-do lists are actually just survival lists—getting you through your day and your life, but not making each day a stepping-stone for the next so that you sequentially build a successful life.

A chave é "ao longo do tempo". O sucesso é construído sequencialmente. Uma coisa de cada vez.

Without intentionally protecting it every day, we allow ourselves to go from a will and a way to no will and no way. If success is what were after, this won't work.

Going small" is ignoring all the things you could do and doing what you should do. It's recognizing that not all things matter equally and finding the things that matter most. It

So how do you put your willpower to work? You think about it. Pay attention to it. Respect it. You make doing what matters most a priority when your willpower is its highest. In other words, you give it the time of day it deserves.

São aqueles que se concentram só numa coisa de cada vez que avançam neste mundo.

Every day, without realizing it, we engage in all manner of activities that diminish our willpower. Willpower is depleted when we make decisions to focus our attention, suppress our feelings and impulses, or modify our behavior in pursuit of goals.

Life doesn't simplify itself the moment you simplify your focus; there's always other stuff screaming to be done. Always. So when stuff pops into your head, just write it down on a task list and get back to what you're supposed to be doing. In other words, do a brain dump. Then put it out of sight and out of mind until its time comes.

Knocking out a hundred tasks for whatever the reason is a poor substitute for doing even one task that's meaningful. Not everything matters equally, and success isn't a game won by whoever does the most.

The truth is, it's a package deal. When you strive for greatness, chaos is guaranteed to show up. In fact, other areas of your life may experience chaos in direct proportion to the time you put in on your ONE Thing. It's important for you to accept this instead of fighting it. Oscar-winning filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola warns us that "anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos." In other words, get used to it and get over it.

you have a limited supply of willpower, so decide what matters and reserve your willpower for it.

Full-strength willpower requires a full tank. Never let what matters most be compromised simply because your brain was under-fueled. Eat right and regularly.

It always takes some time to start a new task and restart the one you quit, and there's no guarantee that you'll ever pick up exactly where you left off.

Do what matters most first each day when your willpower is strongest. Maximum strength willpower means maximum success.

LAS SEIS MENTIRAS QUE SE INTERPONEN ENTRE EL ÉXITO Y TÚ 1. Todas las cosas importan por igual 2. La multitarea 3. Una vida disciplinada 4. La fuerza de voluntad está siempre disponible 5. Una vida equilibrada 6. Lo grande es malo

Everyone has the same amount of time, and hard work is simply hard work. As a result, what you do in the time you work determines what you achieve. And since what you do is determined by what you think, how big you think becomes the launching pad for how high you achieve.