Quotes About Focus

Our life is frittered away by detail…. Simplify, simplify…. A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone." —Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Being busy is not the same as being productive.

unless something is well-defined and important, no one should do it.

Momentum: extensión de Chrome para facilitar la concentración.

what all of this comes down to is whether you are on offense or defense. I

usas dos o tres convicciones sustitutorias para avanzar. Esto

Disciplina igual a libertad"».

what a beautiful metaphor this is for not mistaking the husk—the outer accoutrements of productivity like busyness, or a full calendar, or a clever auto-responder—not mistaking those for the kernel, the core and substance of the actual work produced. And he then says, 'Those who work much, do not work hard.' I

He took his aim. His arm wavered. His eyes burned with sweat. Why didn't someone come and jump on his back and make him stop? He fired. A chair fell over in his mind.

visible, to keep me on track. When

Simply in focusing our attention on the "enemy" Ignatius is rendering us a great service. To be unaware that we can expect resistance when we seek the Lord, or to be aware of this resistance only abstractly and very occasionally, if at all, in the actual living of our spiritual life, greatly increases the likelihood of encountering unexpected spiritual struggles. What is unexpected and finds us unprepared is difficult to overcome and can easily lead to discouragement.

We think, How much better life would be if a certain situation or a relationship were different! Meanwhile, God says that what needs change most is us! He does not just work to fix situations and relationships; he is intent on rescuing us from ourselves. We are the focus of his loving, lifelong work of change.

It is so easy to coast!

Apart from sleeping, how do you spend most of your time? Like money, time is a window into your

but the call here is not so much about specific activities as it is about a lifestyle committed to God's purposes, encompassing all the details of daily life.

Make every effort

get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books.

Prostota jest ogromn? pomoc? przy porz?dkowaniu my?li.

He who is strong does not need the right protection,he who is strong needs the right direction.

Everyone is always looking in the wrong direction, we worry about our lovers while losing our jobs we stress out about cancer while our children run away we ponder the stars while burning the earth. Lark used to say the buller we're running from is almost never the one that hits us.

The theory is simple. Every boy, every man, is really a bit of a golden retriever or a big chocolate Lab. Watch any man's eyes at the bounce of a ball. His head tilts slightly sideways, just a hair, as a primitive focus comes to life.

The well-being and welfare of children should always be our focus.

Splošni odgovor, ki ga daje življenje na vsa najbolj zapletena in nerešljiva vprašanja je: živi za potrebe dneva, potem boš pozabil.

Talent is the capacity to direct concentrated attention upon the subject: "the gift of seeing what others have not seen.