Quotes About Focus

Business is really not that hard. You are, however, required to do the basics or you will not win.

Without a mission statement, you may get to the top of the ladder and then realize it was leaning against the wrong building!

The weird thing is that the more efficient, on task, on goal you are with your time, the more energy you have. Working with no traction, or for that matter simply wasting a day, does not relax you, it drains you.// Strange as it may seem, when you work a daily plan in pursuit of your written goals that flow from your mission statement born of your vision for living your dreams, you are energized after a tough long day.

Yogi Berra, the fabled Yankee baseball player and manager, was said to have pointed out, "If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up somewhere else." That is so true about brands; you need to know where they are to end up.

we are gripped with obsessions and are oblivious to everything going on around us as thoughts continually repeat themselves.

Sam?dhi is the state of concentrated calm resulting from meditation practice."8 In another, we find "It implies not merely equilibrium, tranquillity, and one-pointedness, but a state of intense yet effortless concentration, of complete absorption of the mind itself, of heightened and expanded awareness.

Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them.

If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

You can do anything, but not everything.

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.

Your ability to generate power is directly proportional to your ability to relax.

Everything you've told yourself you ought to do, your mind thinks you should do right now. Frankly, as soon add you have two things to do stored in your RAM, you've generated personal failure, because you can't do two things at the same time. This produces an all-pervasive stress factor whose source can't be pin-pointed.

When we truly need to do is often what we most feel like avoiding.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small, manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. —Mark Twain

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.

Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. —Jonathan Kozol

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

You must use your mind to get things off your mind.

Suffice it to say that something automatic and extraordinary happens in your mind when you create and focus on a clear picture of what you want.

I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I want to do, but I don't know where to begin.

Drawing makes you look at the world more closely. It helps you see what you're looking at more clearly. Did you know that?

Won't get done by looking at it!

and turned back to his book, but something kept eating at him. When he realized he had read the same paragraph four times and still didn't know what it said, he decided it was time to solve the mystery.

That is not how you do it. Think about all your problems at the same time, you might as well cut your veins and climb in the bath. You'll just be completely overwhelmed. We take one problem at a time.