Focus

• Greg McKeown

  Getting the future out of your head enables you to more fully focus on “what is important now.”

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• W H Auden

  Routine, in an intelligent man, is a sign of ambition.

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• You’re the greatest project you’ll ever work on. Restart. Reset. Refocus. As many times as you need.

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• Jeff Bezos

  Step by step. Ferociously.

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• Cal Newport

  Replicating the information from scratch as if teaching a class without looking at your notes. That is the only way to learn.

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• “digital pacification”

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• Tim Ferriss

  What would it look like if it were simple?

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• Eric Barker

  your surroundings should make the things you need to do easy and the things you shouldn’t do hard

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• Dwight D. Eisenhower

  plans are worthless, but planning is everything

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• “attention fatigue”

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• James Clear

  optimize for enthusiasm

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• Seneca

  The mind, when distracted, absorbs nothing deeply.

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• Scott Adams

  Good + Good > Excellent

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• James Clear

  Highly focused people do not leave their options open. They select their priorities and are comfortable ignoring the rest. If you commit to nothing, you’ll be distracted by everything.

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• Epictetus

  Prefer enduring satisfaction to immediate gratification.

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• Do you really want it? Or do you want to want it?

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• Derek Sivers

  Mastery is the best goal because the rich can’t buy it, the impatient can’t rush it, the privileged can’t inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work. Mastery is the ultimate status.

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• James Clear

  which expense in your life delivers the least happiness per dollar and which delivers the most happiness per dollar?

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• I can read your slide faster than you can read it to me.

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• If you are tired, then do it tired.

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• Special Forces

  Aggression mitigates risk.

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• The 3:3:3 Method

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• Steve Jobs

  People think focus means saying yes to the thing you’ve got to focus on, but that’s not what it means at all; it means saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are

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• Tim Ferriss

  learn to ask, “If this is the only thing I accomplish today, will I be satisfied with my day?”

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• Scott Adams

  You can accomplish more by the time other people wake up than most people accomplish all day.

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• Seneca

  true nobility isn’t about being better than someone else; it’s about being better than you used to be

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• Alex Honnold

  This is your path and you will pursue it with excellence. You face your fear, because your goal demands it.

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• Zen

  Hogejaku – “let go of everything”

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• James Clear

  play to your strengths

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• Jordan B Peterson

  Attention is love. There is no difference.

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• Scott Adams

  The most important metric to track is your personal energy.

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• Shunmyō Masuno

  Put your everything into the here and now.

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• Most businesses put on weight.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  The present moment is of equal duration for everyone, and that is all any man possesses.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  Confine yourself to the present

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• Marcus Aurelius

  The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

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• John Powell

  *simple*, not _easy_

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• The magic you are looking for is in the work you are avoiding.

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• “Residual Beneficiary”

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• Effort is a direct reflection of interest.

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• Flow follows focus.

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• Bring value forward.

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• Colin Powell

  Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

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• Well begun is half done.

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• USMC

  Simplicity promotes speed.

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• Military Strategy

  “commanders intent”

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• you will always have problems – learn to enjoy life while solving them

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• Sophocles

  if men live decently, it is because discipline saves their very lives for them

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• Seneca

  If a man knows not to which port he sails, no wind is favourable.

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• Grant Cardone

  when you’re bored of saying it, there might be a chance it’s reached the outer rings of public awareness

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• Abbie Paulhus

  decide what kind of life you really want… and then say no to everything that isn’t that

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• Christine Caine

  Sometimes, when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried – but actually, you’ve been planted.

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• Stephen Aarstol

  the idea that workers are expected to endure 70% of their week so they can enjoy the other 30% is collective insanity

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• B. H. Liddell Hart

  in strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there

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• Sophie Leroy

  “attention residue”

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• NATO forum

  The best approach would be to provide the good guys with our capability and the bad guys with our processes.

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• Patrick Kyei

  If you spent 4 years getting a degree for a job you don’t care about, why can’t you give yourself 1 year to build something that matters to you?

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• Elon Musk

  The most common mistake by clever engineers; trying to optimise a thing that shouldn’t exist.

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• Daniel Priestley

  With or without you energy

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• Confucious

  It’s better to play than do nothing.

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• James Clear

  which distractions in your life have become disguised as priorities?

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• James Clear

  how do you want to feel at the end of today? What do you need to do now, so you can feel this way?

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• we over-estimate what we can do in the short term but under-estimate what we can do in the long term

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• T. S. Eliot

  to do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life

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• Tim Ferriss

  Uncompromising on the vision, flexible on the detail.

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• Tim Ferriss

  what would it look like if it was simple?

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• Tim Ferriss

  acting indiscriminately is a form of laziness

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• Jocko Willink

  there were literally soldiers on the front line of WWI that didn’t burn out

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• Jocko Willink

  do it and it will be done

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• Morgan Richard Olivier

  letting people be wrong about you or a situation while keeping your peace and focus is the most misunderstood power move you will ever make

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• Latin Adage

  if there is no wind, row.

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• Naval Ravikant

  outsource everything that isn’t core

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• Prof Greg Whyte

  Focus on the process, not the outcome.

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• Shunmyō Masuno

  skillfully detach

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• Tim Ferriss

  maker in the morning, manager in the afternoon

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• Toyota

  eliminate everything that doesnt add value

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• Tim Ferriss

  how do I optimise from here to the finish line

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• what went well?

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• if you know how quickly people forget the dead, you will stop living to impress people

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• there will be a day when I don’t get to do this, but today is not that day

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• the lion does not concern himself with Microsoft Teams notitications

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• read it; no one else does so its a competitive advantage

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• even better if…?

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• I’m enjoying life not collecting data

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• James Clear

  easy has a cost

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• Seth Godin

  the problem with the race to the bottom is you might win

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• Seth Godin

  easy to measure doesn’t make it important

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• The Rock

  the most powerful alarm clock is purpose

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• only the person who isn’t rowing can rock the boat

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• Chris Evans

  make yourself as big a target as possible for things you want to happen to you

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• Cal Newport

  your inbox is a list of other people’s to dos

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• Kate Minards

  be appropriately curious

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• Chris Voss

  assumptions blind, hypotheses guide

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• Oren Harari

  the lightbulb did not come from the continuous improvement of candles

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• Steve Albinis

  if a record takes more than a week to make, somebody’s fucking up

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• Army Rangers

  violence of action

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• Ryan Holiday

  Death doesn’t lie off in the distance – it’s the second hand on the clock.

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• Marcus Aurelius

  a blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it

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• Colebrooke

  first up, best dressed

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• Dakota Meyer

  stay in the suffering to learn more of the lesson

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