Focus Can Be

Saying no

Not saying yes

What isn’t noise

Staying on course

Optimal experience

Directed attention

Doing the one thing

Something we control

Knowing our direction

Singleness of purpose

Concentrated attention

Doing what’s necessary

What has our attention

Doing what matters most

Delaying the unessential

A point of concentration

Starving our distractions

Ignoring the distractions

The opposite of vagueness

Knowing what to leave out

Not trying to do too much

Doing one thing at a time

More important than genius

A main purpose or interest

Paying particular attention

The opposite of distraction

Doing whatever we do intensely

The art of knowing what to ignore

Doing one thing better and better

Expensive, not cheap like busyness

The shortest way to do many things

The centre of interest or activity

Being immune to emotional turbulence

Keeping the main thing the main thing

Following one course until successful

Concentrating on one subject at a time

The noble art of leaving things undone

Having a clear and thoughtful strategy

A defining characteristic of intelligence

Deciding what things we’re not going to do

A centre of activity, attraction, or attention

Being comfortable resisting distracting stimuli

Having a clear vision, backed by definite plans

Concentrating all our thoughts upon the work at hand

Choosing our ignorances as carefully as our interests

Saying no to the hundred other good ideas that there are

The ability to say no to the things we really want to do

The concentration or centering of attention on a stimulus

Managing our distractions instead of letting them manage us

Setting our target and keeping on trying until we reach it

Being totally absorbed in whatever activities we are performing

Having a vision that keeps us motivated and efficiently on track

Knowing precisely what tasks we must accomplish, moment by moment

Avoiding any alternative that does not get us closer to the finish line

Applying our physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary

Saying yes to what arouses a major longing, and letting this crowd out everything else

Choosing something we can afford to do and then locking it in and passionately doing it

The secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in all management of human affairs

Working for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distraction

Knowing where we are going, what our priorities and goals are and in which direction we are headed

When our body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile

Being completely absorbed in activities that are difficult but doable, to the point where our brain no longer has space to ruminate about the troubles of daily life