Quotes About Efficiency

realizing that extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.

high multitaskers are suckers for irrelevancy.

big success comes when we do a few things well

Multitaskers were just lousy at everything." Multitasking is a lie.

But it's actually a "way of lie," for the truth is multitasking is neither efficient nor effective. In the world of results, it will fail you every time.

You want your achievements to add up, but that actually takes subtraction, not addition. You need to be doing fewer things for more effect instead of doing more

What's the one thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?

Extraordinary results demand that you set a priority and act on it. When you act on your priority, you'll automatically go out of balance, giving more time to one thing over another.

Researchers estimate that workers are interrupted every 11 minutes and then spend almost a third of their day recovering from these distractions.

The brain makes up l/50th of our body mass but consumes a staggering 1/5th of the calories we burn for energy.

Your work life is divided into two distinct areas—what matters most and everything else. You will have to take what matters to the extremes and be okay with what happens to the rest. Professional success requires it.

THE FOUR THIEVES OF PRODUCTIVITY Inability to Say "No" Fear of Chaos Poor Health Habits Environment Doesn't Support Your Goals

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You can actually give attention to two things, but that is what's called "divided attention." And make no mistake. Take on two things and your attention gets divided. Take on a third and something gets dropped.

Those milliseconds add up. Researchers estimate we lose 28 percent of an average workday to multitasking ineffectiveness.

With research overwhelmingly clear, it seems insane that—knowing how multitasking leads to mistakes, poor choices, and stress—we attempt it anyway Maybe it's just too tempting.

If disproportionate results come from one activity, then you must give that one activity disproportionate time.

multitasking slows us down and makes us slower witted.

Start leading a counterbalanced life. Let the right things take precedence when they should and get to the rest when you can. An extraordinary life is a counterbalancing act.

The ONE Thing shows up time and again in the lives of the successful because it's a fundamental truth.

Why would we ever tolerate multitasking when we're doing our most important work?

When you try to do too much at once, you can end up doing nothing well.

In order to be able to put the principle of The ONE Thing to work, you can't buy into the lie that trying to do two things at once is a good idea. Though multitasking is sometimes possible, it's never possible to do it effectively

putting together a life of extraordinary results simply comes down to getting the most out of what you do, when what you do matters.