Quotes About Focus

How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each day to be and to do what really matters most.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.

Effective leadership is putting first things first. Effective management is discipline, carrying it out

Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.

Doing more things faster is no substitute for doing the right things.

When we talk about time management, it seems ridiculous to worry about speed before direction, about saving minutes when we may be wasting years.

It's incredibly easy to get caught up in the thick of thin things.

because more important than how fast you're going, is where you're headed.

It is possible to be busy—very busy—without being very effective.

God was at the center of your life, everything else would find its proper place.

President N. Eldon Tanner has said, "Self-discipline is doing what you know you should do when you don't want to do it.

When we set and achieve goals that are in our Center of Focus, we maximize the use of our time and effort. Interestingly, we find that as we do this over time, our Circle of Influence automatically increases. We find positive ways to influence more people and circumstances.

the best thinking in the area of time management can be captured in a single phrase: Organize and execute around priorities.

To focus on technique is like cramming your way through school. You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don't pay the price day in and day out, you never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.

It's not enough to say your family is important. If "family" is really going to be top priority, you have to "hunker down, suck it up, and make it happen!

The Main Thing Is To Keep The Main Thing The Main Thing

True discipline means channeling our best hours into first-order objectives, and that means being a nonconformist in the best sense.

if God was at the center of your life, everything else would find its proper place.

Pareto Principle—80 percent of the results flow out of 20 percent of the activities.

One person's mission is another person's minutiae.

The way you spend your time is a result of the way you see your time and the way you really see your priorities

Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power.

To begin with the end in mind means to start with a clear understanding of your destination. It means to know where you're going so that you better understand where you are now and so that the steps you take are always in the right direction.

The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities. And