Quotes About Focus

Where you are standing—your spot on the ground amid this vast world—and what you choose to look at from there means absolutely everything.

Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.

No map? No problem. Let commitment and determination lead the way.

If running a marathon excites you, create space in your life for it. Adding a new commitment means recalibrating different areas of your world. Logging more miles as your race date approaches means less time invested in other pursuits. Not forever, just during the months you train. Too, you will find how training fits into your world serves not only crossing the finish but other areas of life.

This is your first marathon. Possibly, you'll want it to be your last. Focus on future races draws energy from the one in front of you. Like the mileage that comprises them, train for marathons one at a time.

Body follows mind. If the mind compares itself to others this could lead to overtraining. Tune out what other runners do and how fast they run. Tune in, instead, to how your body wants to increase speed and distance.

Learning to be present to what is and stay present to that takes a lot of practice.

your attention to what is here, not to what isn't.

really involved in whatever you are doing. Experience it fully with all of your senses. Be in the experience of the present moment and not lost in your thoughts.

To help bring the rest of reality into focus and put the feeling in its proper perspective, we can ask ourselves: "Is there space around the feeling? How big is that space? Can I make that space even bigger? What is that space like? Is peace there? Is love there? Is compassion there? Can I be that space? What's it like to observe the feeling from the perspective of space? As space, what can I discover about this feeling? Can I, as space, give love and compassion to the feeling?

One key to success is having a clear goal, a plan to achieve it, and then persistence, persistence, and persistence to get there.

It's like, if you can't focus on a movie for 90 minutes without looking at your phone, then don't go to the movies! You've got some issues, so you should probably stay home and work on those issues, and not distract everyone with lights, and sounds, oh my gosh, the tapping on the screens, it makes me crazy!

Success depends on where intention is.

The only way to deal with the future is to function efficiently in the Now.

This writing malarkey should come with a health warning: MAY CAUSE INCESSANT DEVIATION FROM ORIGINAL INTENTION, AND DROWSINESS.

Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus.

The moment you stop worrying about success is when success will happen.

If you don't draw a line in the sand, you will just keep drifting. You have to know what you're willing to do and not willing to do right now.

Life is a journey. As you walk along the road you can either look back or you can look ahead. ... Look ahead. Always look for the very next step.

No one who now competes against Tiger Woods does so without wearing a similar competitive mask. Even as they try to forge ahead and

Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.

More reliably than anything else on earth, the road will force you to live in the present.

Kirjoittaminen on ainoa asia, jota tehdessäni minusta ei tunnu siltä, että minun pitäisi tehdä jotain muuta.

Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel like I should be doing something else.