Quotes About Focus

Is the method effective?Have you ?narrowed down your material to the highest frequency? Is the method sustainable?Have you chosen a schedule and subject matter that you can stick with (or at least put up with) until reaching fluency? Will you actually swallow the pill you've prescribed yourself?

There are two synergistic approaches for increasing productivity that are inversions of each other: 1. Limit tasks to the important to shorten work time (80/20). 2. Shorten work time to limit tasks to the important (Parkinson's Law).

Everybody's impatient at a macro, and just so patient at a micro, wasting your days worrying about years. I'm not worried about my years, because I'm squeezing the fuck out of my seconds, let alone my days. It's going to work out.

It is more profitable to be a big fish in a small pond than a small undefined fish in a big pond.

I needed to get out of my inbox and back to my own to-do list.

when you're very competitive, you get good at the thing you're competing with people on. But it comes at the expense of losing out on many other things.

Check e-mail twice per day, once at 12:00 noon or just prior to lunch, and again at 4:00 P.M. 12:00 P.M. and 4:00 P.M. are times that ensure you will have the most responses from previously sent e-mail. Never check e-mail first thing in the morning.12 Instead, complete your most important task before 11:00 A.M. to avoid using lunch or reading e-mail as a postponement excuse

It's when I'm fuzzy about where I'm headed that I start to say yes to things willy-nilly.

Tengo la firme convicción de que si tienes una idea muy clara de a dónde quieres ir, todo lo demás es mucho más fácil

Timothy Ferriss

My suggestion is, whenever possible, ask yourself: What's the smallest possible footprint I can get away with? What is the smallest possible project that is worth my time? What is the smallest group of people who I could make a difference for, or to? Because smallest is achievable. Smallest feels risky. Because if you pick smallest and you fail, now you've really screwed up.

All you do is you pick a goal and you write it down 15 times a day in some specific sentence form, like 'I, Scott Adams, will become an astronaut,' for example. And you do that every day.

lack of time is actually lack of priorities.

Aspirar a conseguir mil compradores es mucho más viable que un millón de seguidores.

determining which 20% of activities/tasks produce 80% of the results you want),

Me recomiendas algún otro sitio de la ciudad que pueda ser un buen sitio de trabajo para mí? Estoy totalmente decidido a dedicarme a esto. Realmente quiero saber cómo es".

lack of time is actually lack of priorities. Take

Persigue lo que te apasiona» es un consejo

Conditions are never perfect. "Someday" is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. Pro and con lists are just as bad. If it's important to you and you want to do it "eventually," just do it and correct course along the way.

Dr. B. J. Fogg, founder of the Persuasive Technology Lab at Stanford University, wrote his graduate dissertation with a far less aggressive commitment. Even if he came home from a party at 3:00 A.M., he had to write one sentence per day. He finished in record time while classmates languished for years, overwhelmed by the enormity of the task. Understanding this

What bullshit excuses do you have for not going after whatever it is that you want? Please,

Many people feel that when they are overwhelmed or lose focus, they need to retreat into themselves and shut out the world. They think that there is greater merit and virtue in figuring things out alone. That doesn't work for me. I find myself, and activate my greatest creative capacities, in relationship with the beautiful diversity of other human beings.

three times per day at scheduled times, he had to ask himself the following question: Am I being productive or just active?

It's not how well you play the game, it's deciding what game you want to play."—Kwame Appiah.