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[Quote No.60228] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"He who cannot obey himself will be commanded." - Friedrich Nietzsche
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[Quote No.60250] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next!" - Herbert Hoover
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[Quote No.60252] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"[Manage your 'To-Do' List priorities: What to focus on:]
By 1918, Charles M. Schwab was one of the richest men in the world.
Schwab (oddly enough, no relation to Charles R. Schwab, founder of the Charles Schwab Corporation) was the president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, the largest shipbuilder and the second - largest steel producer in the U.S. at the time. The famous inventor Thomas Edison once referred to Schwab as the 'master hustler.' He was constantly seeking an edge over the competition.
Accounts differ as to the date, but according to historian Scott M. Cutlip, it was one day in 1918 that Schwab -- in his quest to increase the efficiency of his team and discover better ways to get things done -- arranged a meeting with a highly respected productivity consultant named Ivy Lee.
Lee was a successful businessman in his own right and is widely remembered as a pioneer in the field of public relations. As the story goes, Schwab brought Lee into his office and said, 'Show me a way to get more things done.'
'Give me 15 minutes with each of your executives,' Lee replied.
'How much will it cost me?' Schwab asked.
'Nothing,' Lee said. 'Unless it works. After three months, you can send me a check for whatever you feel it’s worth to you.'
The Ivy Lee Method:
During his 15 minutes with each executive, Lee explained his simple method for achieving peak productivity:
--1 At the end of each workday, write down the six most important things you need to accomplish tomorrow. Do not write down more than six tasks.
--2 Prioritize those six items in order of their true importance.
--3 When you arrive tomorrow, concentrate only on the first task. Work until the first task is finished before moving on to the second task.
--4 Approach the rest of your list in the same fashion. At the end of the day, move any unfinished items to a new list of six tasks for the following day.
--5 Repeat this process every working day.
The strategy sounded simple, but Schwab and his executive team at Bethlehem Steel gave it a try. After three months, Schwab was so delighted with the progress his company had made that he called Lee into his office and wrote him a check for $25,000.
Complexity is often a weakness because it makes it harder to get back on track.
A $25,000 check written in 1918 is the equivalent of a $400,000 check in 2015." - James Clear
[http://www.fastcompany.com/3062946/your-most-productive-self/this-100-year-old-to-do-list-hack-still-works-like-a-charm and http://jamesclear.com/ivy-lee ]
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[Quote No.60258] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"[One-Step-At-A-Time Focus! Why? Because you can't do two things that require concentration at once -- or at least you can't do them very well:] ...
The idea that conscious processes need to be done one at a time has been studied in hundreds of experiments since the 1980s. For example, the scientist Harold Pashler showed that when people do two cognitive tasks at once, their cognitive capacity can drop from that of a Harvard MBA to that of an eight-year-old. It's a phenomenon called dual-task interference. In one experiment, Pashler had volunteers press one of two keys on a pad in response to whether a light flashed on the left or right side of a window. One group only did this task over and over. Another group had to define the color of an object at the same time, choosing from among three colors. These are simple variables: left or right, and only three colors. Yet doing two tasks took twice as long, leading to no time saving. This finding held up whether the experiment involved sight or sound, and no matter how much participants practiced. If it didn't matter whether they got the answers right, they could go faster. The lesson is clear: if accuracy is important, don't divide your attention.
Another experiment had volunteers rapidly pressing one of two foot pedals to represent when a high or low tone sounded. This exercise took a lot of attention. When researchers added one more physical task, such as putting a washer on a screw, people could still do it, sort of, with around a 20 percent decrease in performance. Yet when they added a simple mental task to the foot-pedal exercise, such as adding up just two single-digit numbers, (a simple 5 + 3 = ), performance fell 50 percent. This experiment revealed that the problem isn't doing two things at once so much as doing two conscious mental tasks at once, unless you are okay with a significant drop in performance. ...
Despite thirty years of consistent findings about dual-task interference, many people still try to do several things at once. Workers of the world have been told to multitask for years. Linda Stone, a former VP at Microsoft, coined the term continuous partial attention in 1998. It's what happens when people's focus is split, continuously. The effect is constant and intense mental exhaustion. As Stone explains it, 'To pay continuous partial attention is to keep a top-level item in focus, and constantly scan the periphery in case something more important emerges.'
A study done at the University of London found that constant emailing and text-messaging reduces mental capability by an average of ten points on an IQ test. It was five points for women, and fifteen points for men. This effect is similar to missing a night's sleep. For men, it's around three times more than the effect of smoking cannabis. While this fact might make an interesting dinner party topic, it's really not that amusing that one of the most common 'productivity tools' can make one as dumb as a stoner. (Apologies to technology manufacturers: there are good ways to use this technology, specifically being able to 'switch off' for hours at a time.) ... " - David Rock
'Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter All Day Long', Pages 35-36.
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[Quote No.60270] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"See this moment as the most important moment in the world, and don’t wait to be happy." - Leo Babauta
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[Quote No.60283] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"What you're thinking is what you're becoming [so keep focussed on what positive thing you want rather than what negative thing you don't want]." - Muhammad Ali
Championship boxer
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[Quote No.60286] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"What you attend to [focus on and distract from] drives your behavior and it determines your happiness. Attention is the glue that holds your life together... The scarcity of attentional resources means that you must [prioritise what you focus on] consider how you can make and facilitate better decisions about what to pay attention to and in what ways." - Paul Dolan
'Happiness by Design: Change What You Do, Not How You Think'.
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[Quote No.60289] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"[Attention - focus versus distraction:] The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a wandering attention over and over again is the very root of judgment, character and will... An education which should improve this faculty would be the education par excellence." - William James
'The Principles of Psychology'.
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[Quote No.60302] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"[Focus and distraction to start behaviour-action:] Willpower 101: The Psychology of Self-Control:
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In a classic study [Mischel, M. et al. (1989). Delay of gratification in children. Science, 244, 933-938.], Stanford psychologist Walter Mischel asked children to wait to eat a treat (often a cookie or marshmallow) in order to receive two treats instead of just one. While some of the children in Mischel's experiment gobbled up the treat immediately (choosing short-term satisfaction over a longer-term reward), some of the children were able to exert their willpower and wait for the second reward. In follow-up research, Mischel found that those kids who were able to delay gratification had better grades, better academic test scores, and higher educational attainment.
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Utilize Distraction:
In Mischel's classic marshmallow experiment, children who were able to resist eating the marshmallow right away utilized a number of different strategies to strengthen their willpower. Distraction was one of the most effective. Some kids closed their eyes while some turned away and looked elsewhere. The kids who couldn't take their eyes off the treat, however, were far more likely to give in.
When facing a temptation, whether it's the desire to eat, drink, spend, or indulge in some other undesired behavior, try looking for some form of distraction. Get your mind off the thing that is tempting you at the moment so that you can stay on the path toward your long-term goals." - Kendra Cherry
[Refer https://www.verywell.com/willpower-101-the-psychology-of-self-control-2795041 - Updated April 25, 2016.]
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[Quote No.60320] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.
" - Andrew Jackson
(1767-1845)
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[Quote No.60324] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Vision without action is merely a dream. ...Vision with action can change the world." - Joel Barker
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[Quote No.60330] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"You can do anything, but not everything." - David Allen
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[Quote No.60344] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." - Bruce Lee
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[Quote No.60355] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Each minute is a little thing, and yet, with respect to our personal productivity, to manage the minute is the secret of success." - Joseph B. Wirthlin
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[Quote No.60382] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The successful warrior [businessperson, leader, parent, etc] is the average man, with laserlike focus." - Bruce Lee
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[Quote No.60437] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding!" - Ariel Durant
'The Lessons of History'
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[Quote No.60440] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"...where you focus your attention determines your emotional state [and thereby your motivation and subsequent action].
" - Dr. Travis Bradberry
[http://www.success.com/article/15-qualities-of-mentally-tough-people? ]
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[Quote No.60442] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"To get anything done, your brain must:
1. Attend to [focus on] what is relevant
2. Inhibit [distract from] what is not relevant
3. Keep it in front of your attention until it is done." - Henry Cloud
Psychologist and a performance consultant.
[http://www.success.com/blog/everything-you-know-about-getting-things-done-is-wrong? ]
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[Quote No.60444] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The first part of success is Get-to-it-iveness [focus]; the second part of success is Stick-to-it-iveness [persist]." - Orison Swett Marden
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[Quote No.60472] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will." - Vince Lombardi
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[Quote No.60507] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Step by step the ladder is ascended!" - George Herbert
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[Quote No.60520] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Keep your mind on your objective, and persist until you succeed." - W. Clement Stone
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[Quote No.60538] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"If you get yourself too engrossed in things over which you have no control, it will adversely affect the things over which you do have control." - John Wooden
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[Quote No.60546] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The quality of your life is determined by the focus of your attention.
" - Cheri Huber
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[Quote No.60549] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Your life is [determined by] what you give your attention to [and focus on].
" - Cheri Huber
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[Quote No.60556] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The entire quality of your life is totally dependent on the thoughts you choose to think focus on." - Rabbi Zelig Pliskin
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[Quote No.60572] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"I believe in starting one step at a time." - Jewel Kilcher
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actress, author, and poet. She has received four Grammy Award nominations and, as of 2008, has sold over 30 million albums worldwide. [Refer JewelNeverBroken.com ]
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[Quote No.60583] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"We all must suffer one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret." - Jim Rohn
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[Quote No.60588] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary!" - Thomas Alva Edison
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[Quote No.60635] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Action is the foundational key to all success." - Pablo Picasso
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[Quote No.60640] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Choices are the hinges of destiny." - Edwin Markham
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[Quote No.60642] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought into a focus." - Alexander Graham Bell
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[Quote No.60656] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Watch your thoughts, they become your words!
Watch your words, they become your actions!
Watch your actions, they become your habits!
Watch your habits, they become your character!
Watch your character, it becomes your destiny!
" - Hillel the Elder
(circa 110 B.C. - 10 A.D.), famous Jewish religious leader, sage and scholar and one of the most important figures in Jewish history. He is associated with the development of the Mishnah and the Talmud.
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[Quote No.60721] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"It's not brilliance that makes greatness; it's [persistent] consistency and focus." - John C. Maxwell
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[Quote No.60758] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye." - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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[Quote No.60767] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your positive mind and release ideas and energy for goal attainment. Without goals, you simply drift and flow on the currents of life. With goals, you fly like an arrow, straight and true to your target!" - Brian Tracy
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[Quote No.60772] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Such as are your habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of your mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
" - Marcus Aurelius
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[Quote No.60785] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"The secret of discipline is motivation. When a man is sufficiently motivated [and controls-focuses his attention on the desired outcome and the next action required], discipline will take care of itself.
" - Sir Alexander Paterson
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[Quote No.60823] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"[Self-discipline:] The first and noblest of all victories is for a man to conquer himself." - Plato
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[Quote No.60852] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"...many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little." - Plutarch
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[Quote No.60921] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"It is those who have a deep and real inner [imaginative] life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life." - Evelyn Underhill
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[Quote No.60952] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Where you focus your attention determines your emotional state [and the actions you take].
" - Dr. Travis Bradberry
Co-author of the best-selling book, 'Emotional Intelligence 2.0', and the co-founder of TalentSmart.
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[Quote No.60963] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Every human mind is a great slumbering power until awakened [and focused] by keen desire and by definite resolution to do." - Edgar F. Roberts
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[Quote No.61000] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"'Self-Control Is Just Empathy With Your Future Self' -
The same part of the brain that allows us to step into the shoes of others also helps us restrain ourselves: ...
Empathy depends on your ability to overcome your own perspective, appreciate someone else's, and step into their shoes. Self-control is essentially the same skill, except that those other shoes belong to your future self - a removed and hypothetical entity who might as well be a different person. So think of self-control as a kind of temporal selflessness. It's Present You taking a hit [delaying gratification] to help out Future You." - Ed Yong
[https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/12/self-control-is-just-empathy-with-a-future-you/509726/ ]
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[Quote No.61007] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Functionally, a man is somewhat like a bicycle. A bicycle maintains its poise and equilibrium only so long as it's moving forward toward something!" - Maxwell Maltz
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[Quote No.61018] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful." - Mark Victor Hansen
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[Quote No.61028] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself." - Soren Kierkegaard
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[Quote No.61038] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined." - Harry Fosdick
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[Quote No.61157] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"This thought which has arisen [and I am thinking and focusing on], is it helpful? Is it serving me or others in some way or is it not? Is it just playing out perhaps old conditions of fear or judgment or things that are not very helpful for ourselves or others? [If it is not helpful, why not discard and distract your attention from it and on to something more helpful or enjoyable?]" - Joseph Goldstein
Quote from his book, 'Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening'.
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[Quote No.61161] Need Area: Mind > Focus
"Thought [imagination] is the seed of action." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
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