Quotes About Focus

No software, seminar, cool notebook, smartphone, or even personal mission statement will give you more than twenty-four hours in a day

strength; just the ability to generate a focused thrust with speed. But a tense muscle is a slow one. So the high levels of training in the martial arts teach and demand balance and relaxation as much as anything else. Clearing the mind to being open and appropriately responsive is the key.

The Zeigarnik Effect, as it has come to be known today, states simply that the brain naturally remembers and holds on to anything that is interrupted or incomplete. These interruptions and incompletions are called open loops.

the focus we hold in our minds affects what we perceive and how we perform.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece. —Nadia Boulanger

It's a waste of time and energy to keep thinking about something that you make no progress on. And it only adds to your anxiety about what you should be doing and aren't. Most

Here's how I define "stuff": anything you have allowed into your psychological or physical world that doesn't belong where it is, but for which you haven't yet determined what, exactly, it means to you, with the desired outcome and the next action step.

1  |  Every open loop must be in your capture system and out of your head. 2  |  You must have as few capturing buckets as you can get by with. 3  |  You must empty them regularly.

We need to transform all the "stuff" we've attracted and accumulated into a clear inventory of meaningful actions, projects, and usable information. Almost

Let our advance worrying become our advance thinking and planning. —Winston Churchill Focus

You increase your productivity and creativity exponentially when you think about the right things at the right time and have the tools to capture your value-added thinking.

People think a lot, but most of that thinking is of a problem, project, or situation—not about it. If you actually did this suggested exercise, you were required to structure your thinking toward an outcome and an action, and that does not usually happen without a consciously focused effort. Reacting is automatic, but thinking is not.

The Value of Thinking About Why Here are just some of the benefits of asking why: It defines success. It creates decision-making criteria. It aligns resources. It motivates. It clarifies focus. It expands options.

The vast majority of people have been trying to get organized by rearranging incomplete lists of unclear things;

If you're not sure why you're doing something, you can never do enough of it.

The vast majority of people have been trying to get organized by rearranging incomplete lists of unclear things; they haven't yet realized how much and what they need to organize in order to get the real payoff. They need to gather everything that requires thinking about and then do that thinking if their organizational efforts are to be successful. The

You've got to think about the big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. —Alvin Toffler This

If you're not totally sure what your job is, it will always feel overwhelming.

Your mind will keep working on anything that's still in that undecided state.

Projects do not need to be listed in any particular order, whether by size or by priority. They just need to be on a master list

There is usually an inverse proportion between how much something is on your mind and how much it's getting done.

Most often, the reason something is on your mind is that you want it to be different than it currently is, and yet: you haven't clarified exactly what the intended outcome is;

If your head is your only system for placeholding, you will experience an attempted multitasking internally, which is psychologically impossible and the source of much stress for many people.

The big problem is that your mind keeps reminding you of things when you can't do anything about them.