Category Archive: Focus

10 Ways to Defeat Distraction

Technology trains us to crave distraction.

If you aren’t distracted now, you’re anticipating your next distraction.

Distraction delivers ankle-deep impact.

Learn 10 practical ways to regain control.

Your Language Lens Trains Your Eyes

What you repeatedly talk about becomes easier to notice.

Your language lens creates focus.

You’re an expert at proving your words are right.

How to shift your language lens?

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Forging Clarity in the Fog

You abandon the future when you run from uncertainty.

Don’t manage things that should change.

The future is forged in the fog.

#1. Clarity enables performance.
#2. Confusion is an opportunity.
#3. “Not knowing” is the path to innovation.

Don’t wait for clarity; create it.

Here’s how…

The Focus Most Get Wrong

Don’t focus on what you want. Concentrate on what you do.

Learn from the past.

Glance at the future.

Concentrate on present action.

Long-term goals are good for direction, not daily practices.

Reject the seduction of results. Commit to daily rituals.

Here’s how…

Become a Pro at Ignoring Stuff

Paying attention to everything will drive you nuts.

A Life Flight pilot told me he succeeds by ignoring the patients in the back.

The secret to doing stuff that matters is ignoring stuff that doesn’t.

10 ways to become a pro at ignoring stuff.

Focus on 4 Things Before Breakfast

Grip your butterfly-brain before breakfast.

The worst thing you do in the morning is let your thoughts run free. A butterfly-brain lands in dark places.

Butterflies aren’t leaders. Scattered people run in circles.

Do 4 Things Before Breakfast