Quotes About Focus

No comiences a usar tu tiempo libre sin un plan porque, entonces, lo perderás mientras se te ocurre qué hacer", nos recomienda Huckabee.

Ignore, minimize, or outsource everything else. I asked all my time-makeover guinea pigs to identify activities they wanted to get off their plates, and to fill in the blank for the sentence "I spend way too much time on ____." If you keep an accurate log of your 168 hours, you will likely be surprised by the number of hours you spend on certain things.

when you focus on what you do best, on what brings you the most satisfaction, there is plenty of space for everything.

Knock a few of these easy items off first, then look for ways to minimize more complicated time traps.

There's little point, though, in being too scattered to master something, or in spending much time on activities in which you can't excel.

Multitasking is, more often than not, inefficient single-tasking.

En efecto, aprender a aprovechar las mañanas es algo que, en nuestro distraído mundo, puede marcar la diferencia entre el logro y el caos.

if you want to get the most out of your 168 hours, you need a work team and a home team, all focused on their core competencies, so you can focus on yours.

This requires incredible mindfulness. It requires deciding, in a busy life, to give people the attention they deserve. That is a splendid choice; in general, people are an excellent use of time.

por lo general vuelvo a mi escritorio y, en lugar de iniciar mi día de trabajo, me siento tentada a servirme una taza de café y navegar sin rumbo por internet.

Si haces cuentas, puedes pasar entre tres y cuatro horas al día en actividades superfluas

requires changing the narrative. As Daytner explained to me, she doesn't tell herself I don't have time to do X, Y, or Z. She tells herself that she won't do X, Y, or Z because "it's not a priority.

Life is not going to be less hectic next week. Life probably won't be less hectic next year. We have to make time for what matters now. We need practical, straightforward strategies to make that happen.

Broadly, those who get the most out of life try to figure out and focus on their core competencies. They know that at least one key difference between happy, successful people, and those just muddling along is that the happy ones spend as many of their 168 hours as possible on their core competencies—honing their focus to get somewhere—and, like modern corporations, chucking everything else.

does laughing with people you've known since childhood—and "during the activity you're so focused on it you're not thinking about the to-do list and other stresses in life." Indeed, the first time she returned home after this bout of tennis tranquility, her husband told her, "You look like you're glowing." Not bad for a Tuesday, right?

Afortunadamente, es posible minimizar todo tipo de distracciones. La mejor manera de lidiar con las distracciones "productivas" que surgen en tu mente de forma espontánea consiste en redactar una lista "para después". Mientras estés haciendo el trabajo

Any "work" that is not advancing you toward the professional life you want should not count as work. It is wasted time.

You can compress time spent on non-core-competency activities with a three-part strategy: • Ignore it • Minimize it, or • Outsource it

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now.

Half of life's problems disappear when one's head is healthy.

His attention span was not long, shall we say?

You should never start thinking about 'what might have been,' and you should also never start thinking about another boy when you're heartbroken over someone else.

I focus on a project in the morning before scanning my inbox so that I take control of my day instead of my inbox taking control of it. The