Quotes About Focus

Shooting well with the rifle is the highest kind of skill, for the rifle is the queen of weapons; and it is a difficult art to learn.

Mantén tus ojos en las estrellas, y tus pies en la tierra

With self-discipline most anything is possible.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.

The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention.

In other words, if you aren't focusing resources and time on your church website, you are thumbing your nose at the Great Commission. And that's not an overstatement. A church with a lousy website is committing the sin of Great Commission negligence.

El enfoque es el compromiso a abandonar todo to que queda ficera del proceso ministerial simple. El enfoque con frecuencia implica decir "no>>. El enfoque exige que se diga > a todo lo demas.

Las Iglesias simples abandonan todo lo que esta fuera del proceso simple porque amenaza con robar la atencion y la energia de lo que ha sido determinado como necesario. Los eventos, las actividades y los programas fuera del proceso hacen que las personas avancen en multiples direcciones. La falta de enfoque conduce a la dispersion.

Los lideres de la iglesia deben tener la determinacion del ap6stol Pablo, que dijo: ,Una coca hago> (Fil. 3:13).

En muchas Iglesias, to que al principio eran las herramientas para transformar la vida, han generado abarrotamiento. En vez de unificar el enfoque, lo diversificaron. Las actividades se convirtieron en fines en si mismas.

La conclusion: la espiritualidad de comida rapida no es saludable. Es ma's, el enfoque al ministerio cada vez mas amplio y mas rapido mata nuestras iglesias. La respuesta adecuada: mantenerse enfocado en el proceso simple. Decir no a todo lo demas.

Simply stated, your church will not likely be ready for change until it experiences some action steps of an outward focus.

This outward focus prepares the members for change. It gets them looking beyond their own needs to the needs of their community and the world.

Turnaround begins with you. Outward focus begins with you. Revitalization begins with you.

Fearful leaders love to stay in the morass of insignificant details. Because the details are usually unimportant, it is difficult to make a mistake of consequence. Of course, it's impossible to do anything of consequence when your focus is on those things that really don't make a difference.

Research shows that when you receive frequent interruptions while working on a task, your performance drops the equivalent of ten IQ points. In other words, when you multi-task you are ten points dumber on the core task than you are if you just focused on the core task. Some of us cannot afford to multi-task.1

If we want any hope of reversing troubling church trends, especially among young people, we must focus not on tribal heritage, denominational branding, theological hair-splitting, or pharisaical purity. We must focus on Jesus—and his sacrificial love for us and all people.

you have not been / paying attention

Seek not to know who said this or that, but take note of what has been said.

Whatever you do, do it with intelligence, and keep the end in view.

5. Be ofttimes mindful of the saying,(3) The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing. Strive, therefore, to turn away thy heart from the love of the things that are seen, and to set it upon the things that are not seen. For they who follow after their own fleshly lusts, defile the conscience, and destroy the grace of God.

We may enjoy abundance of peace if we refrain from busying ourselves with the sayings and doings of others, and things which concern not ourselves.

Do not trouble about those who are with you or against you, but take care that God be with you in everything you do.