Quotes About Focus

These half-baked, right-in-the-middle-of-something-else new ideas lead to half-finished, abandoned projects that litter the landscape and zap morale.

But what if …?" "What happens when …?" "Don't we need to plan for …?" Don't make up problems you don't have yet. It's not a problem until it's a real problem. Most of the things you worry about never happen anyway.

If you can't fit everything you want to do within 40 hours per week, you need to get better at picking what to do, not work longer hours.

That's because offices have become interruption factories. A busy office is like a food processor—it chops your day into tiny bits. Fifteen minutes here, ten minutes there, twenty here, five there.

Bezos only makes decisions in the first half of the day. If any important decision comes to him after noon, he won't make it, he'll say he's waiting until the next day. Because he knows he is cognitively there in the morning, in the best possible way. The mornings are for decisions, the afternoons are not.

Don't waste time on problems you don't have yet Do you really need to worry about scaling to 100,000 customers today if it will take you two years to get there?

Don't shy away from the fact that your product or service does less. Highlight it. Be proud of it. Sell it as aggressively as competitors sell their extensive feature lists.

Cuando estás inspirado eres capaz de hacer en veinticuatro horas el trabajo de dos semanas. La inspiración es como una máquina del tiempo.

Si quieres hacer algo, tienes que hacerlo ahora. No puedes aparcarlo durante un par de meses y luego volver. Sencillamente, no te puedes permitir decir que lo harás más tarde. Más tarde ya no estarás entusiasmado.

Algunas veces dejar lo que estás haciendo es la decisión adecuada, incluso si para entonces ya le has dedicado mucho esfuerzo. No insistas en malgastar un tiempo necesario en un trabajo que no lo es.

It's the stuff you leave out that matters. So constantly look for things to remove, simplify, and streamline. Be a curator. Stick to what's truly essential. Pare things down until you're left with only the most important stuff. Then do it again. You can always add stuff back in later if you need to.

Decide what you're going to do this week, not this year. Figure out the next most important thing and do that. Make decisions right before you do something, not far in advance.

When things aren't working, the natural inclination is to throw more at the problem. More people, time, and money. All that ends up doing is making the problem bigger. The right way to go is the opposite direction: Cut back.

Plantéatelo así: si tuvieras que arrancar tu negocio en dos semanas, ¿qué dejarías para más tarde? Es curioso cómo una pregunta como ésta te obliga a concentrar tus energías. De pronto te das cuenta de que hay cantidad de cosas que no necesitas. Y que ahora te parece evidente lo que realmente es imprescindible.

I disagree, but let's commit

You just can't bring your A game to every situation. Knowing when to embrace Good Enough is what gives you the opportunity to be truly excellent when you need to be. We're not suggesting you put shit work out there. You need to be able to be proud of it, even if it's only "okay." But attempting to be indiscriminately great at everything is a foolish waste of energy.

Éste es el mensaje con el que todos nos deberíamos quedar. Toma el cincel y empieza a hacer algo real. Cualquier otra cosa será sencillamente una distracción.

If you want to do something, you've got to do it now. You can't put it on a shelf and wait two months to get around to it. You can't just say you'll do it later. Later, you won't be pumped up about it anymore.

Ironically, you'll probably get far more done when only half of your workday overlaps with the rest of your team. Instead of spending the entire day dealing with Urgent!!! emails and disruptive phone calls, you'll have the entire start (or end) of the day to yourself.

It's tempting for people to obsess over tools instead of what they're going to do with those tools.

In business, too many people obsess over tools, software tricks, scaling issues, fancy office space, lavish furniture, and other frivolities instead of what really matters. And what really matters is how to actually get customers and make money.

You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.

So sacrifice some of your darlings for the greater good. Cut your ambition in half. You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole. Most

So start chopping. Getting to great starts by cutting out stuff that's merely good.