Quotes About Focus

Buckingham has a fine series of books on making the most of your strengths rather than obsessing about your weaknesses.)

The value of the miracle scale is that it focuses attention on small milestones that are attainable and visible rather than on the eventual destination, which may seem very remote.

marry your long-term goal with short-term critical moves.

SMART goals presume the emotion; they don't generate it.

Psychologists have identified two contrasting mindsets that affect our motivation and our receptiveness to new opportunities: a "prevention focus," which orients us toward avoiding negative outcomes, and a "promotion focus," which orients us toward pursuing positive outcomes.

PRINCIPLE 1: SIMPLICITY How do we find the essential core of our ideas? A successful defense lawyer says, "If you argue ten points, even if each is a good point, when they get back to the jury room they won't remember any.

To make progress toward a goal, whether it's noble or crass, requires the energy and drive of the Elephant. And

Picking out tiny chunks of work at a time stays the panic.

The problem is that urgencies—the most vivid and immediate circumstances—will always hog our spotlight.

We can attain distance by looking at our situation from an observer's perspective.     ââ'¬Â¢  Andy Grove asked, "What would our successors do?"     ââ'¬Â¢  Adding distance highlights what is most important; it allows us to see the forest, not the trees.     7.

So, while our focus will veer away from The Tipping Point's turf, we want to pay tribute to Gladwell for the word "stickiness." It stuck.

Like a solutions-focused therapist, look for the flashes of success.

dogged focus

Establishing your core priorities is, unfortunately, not the same as binding yourself to them.

to marry your long-term goal with short-term critical moves.

Prioritization rescues people from the quicksand of decision angst, and that's why finding the core is so valuable.

Our Rider has a problem focus when he needs a solution focus. If you are a manager, ask yourself: "What is the ratio of the time I spend solving problems to the time I spend scaling successes?

The ambiguity in the goal is allowing rationalization to creep in.

The Rider has to be jarred out of introspection, out of analysis. He needs a script that explains how to act, and that's why the successes we've seen have involved such crisp direction.

companies often emphasize features when they should be emphasizing benefits.

Rule #1. Simpler Is Better: Round with Enthusiasm.

Deadlines focus our mental spotlight on a choice. They grab us by the collar and say, If you're gonna do this, you have to do it now.

Focusing is great for analyzing alternatives but terrible for spotting them. Think about the visual analogy—when we focus we sacrifice peripheral vision.

in recalling an experience, we ignore most of what happened and focus instead on a few particular moments.