Quotes About Focus

Personal power is raised (through tightening the muscles), focused with a goal (through visualization), and released to bring that goal into manifestation.

First off, make sure you won't be interrupted during your religious (or magical) rite. If you're at home, tell your family that you'll be busy and aren't to be disturbed. If alone, take the phone off the hook, lock the doors, and pull the blinds, if you wish. It's best if you can ensure that you will be alone and undisturbed for some time.

When I get in the car I love my wife and kids more than anything, but I'm not thinking about that side of things. I'm thinking about the car, I'm thinking about the race and I'm thinking about how to make the car faster.

The experience made one thing crystal clear: You have to envision the focal point of your life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.

The past should remain firmly behind one. The present holds enough obstacles.

Focus isn't about hammering one nail all our lives. It's about hammering lots of nails, one way, all our lives.

The path to victory is the path you're on. It becomes a path to victory the moment you decide it does.

Look around. Pay attention to the stories of people who are finishing first. Then realize that all of your excuses are just that—excuses. Ask what has worked for others and how you can make it work for you, too. Ask yourself how you can leverage your unique skills and strengths to accomplish the unthinkable.

You will move the direction in which you're pointed. If you are always looking back to the past, reliving your failures or even your successes, no wonder you're not moving forward very quickly. You can either spend time sitting around, thinking about the "glory days," or you can get about the business of finishing first in your life right now. The idea is to stay pointed forward, to focus your attention on the direction you'd like to go.

I want you to use your misplaced acorn of a brain before the squirrel comes looking for it again.

I want you to use your misplaced acorn of a brain before the squirrel comes looking for it again. I

Making the most of each moment and ridding ourselves of the toxic habit of constantly looking forward to the next thing. Be where your feet are.

The important part is to set an intention for your day and for your life. A daily mantra is one way to do that; another is creating a Leadership Constitution.

If you feel strongly that someone is watching you, that's because they probably are. Your brain has a primal gaze detection system that determines whether someone is staring directly at you or not.

Amplification through simplification.

Settle in your mind what you want, what your goal is with your writing, and then take steps to reach that goal.

Hmm. You know, nobody gives me the time, either. I have to make the time, set priorities, discipline myself to get my writing done each day, no matter how tired I am.

You have marriage on the brain all of a sudden?

Believe in himself, to chart his course and stick to it

This one step - choosing a goal and sticking to it - changes everything

We go straight". I say again. "If we start making turns, we might not know what direction is what. If we keep going straight, at least we know how to get back to where we came from if we get into trouble. I know it's tiring, but walking uphill is a good thing-every step we take is a step closer to getting out." "I see shoulders droop, I hear heavy sighs. They don't want to agree with me; they want to go the easier way".

In many fields a year of focused work plus caring a lot would be enough.

Dear children, keep yourselves from idols. (1 John 5:21 NIV)

Because the gospel is true, because Jesus is the precious "living Stone" (1 Pet. 2:4–8), I will not despair when I am weak in concentration and focus. Indeed, Father, you're not calling me to trust in my ability to trust, but to trust in you—in your trustworthiness, not in mine.