“Information is not inconsequential or simply benign. It consumes our attention…our precious and valuable attention. We become prosperous when we learn to fix attention on our purpose, on service-oriented activities and on useful information. Our attention will be the source of our wealth, so if we allow the poisoned, random waters of everything that poses as “news” or “edgy new entertainment” to wash in, we have nothing left to work with.”

- From Wealth Warrior by Steve Chandler

“People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don’t even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child—our own two eyes. All is a miracle.”

- From The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh

“Gratitude is a choice. It can become a positive habit -- but only with discipline. With continued exercise, practicing gratitude will create more abundance, prosperity, well-being, and happiness than you ever thought possible. In order to create abundance you must first acknowledge and appreciate the abundance you already have.”

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“Research has proven that practicing gratitude improves our emotional and physical well-being; reduces stress, worry, fear, anxiety and the conditions closely associated with these emotions such as high blood pressure, depression, heart disease, and immune system deficiencies. Gratitude can save and prolong your life.”

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“Gratitude is the attitude that changes everything. An attitude of gratitude adjusts your mind to focus on the positive. Thus you’ll see, discover and create more of the same, experiencing more abundance, prosperity, well-being, love, joy, and happiness.”

- From Living Your Best Year Ever by Darren Hardy

“Scientists are finding that even on the days when you don’t feel like you have anything to be thankful for, just asking the question ‘What am I grateful for?’ is enough to change the chemistry of your brain. This simple practice trains you to look for everything that is going right in your life so you can start to more effectively water the flowers and not the weeds.” “The more you stimulate the neural pathways through practicing gratitude, the stronger and more automatic they become.”

- From Stress Less, Accomplish More by Emily Fletcher

“To simplify your life, zero-based thinking is one of the most powerful strategies you can learn and apply on a regular basis. Here’s how it works. Ask yourself, ‘Is there anything I am doing right now that, knowing what I now know, I wouldn’t get into again if I were starting over today?’”

- From Focal Point by Brian Tracy

“You only have one shot at leaving a legacy for your life. How you use your time and who you spend your time with are the most important decisions you’ll make in life. Choose wisely. You cannot soar with eagles if all you do is hang around turkeys. Ask the big question: What do you really want to achieve in life? Then think, are the people I’m spending time with helping me achieve this?”

- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne

“The people who achieve extraordinary results don’t achieve them by working more hours. They achieve them by getting more done in the hours they work.”

- From The ONE Thing by Gary Keller

“What’s the ONE Thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”

- From The ONE Thing by Gary Keller

“When you switch from Task A to Task B, your attention doesn’t immediately follow – a residue of your attention remains stuck thinking about the original task. People experiencing attention residue after switching tasks are likely to demonstrate poor performance on that next task.” So even if you don’t try to multi-task and focus on just one thing at a time, each time you switch to a new task you are getting sub-optimal performance on the new task.”

- From Deep Work by Cal Newport

“Be wary of letting random emails chip away at your productivity—life is too short to let strangers dictate what you do with your day.”

- From Unsubscribe by Jocelyn K. Glei

“Every time you check your email or another message service, you’re basically saying ‘Does any random person need my time right now?’ And if you respond right away, you’re sending another signal to both them and to yourself: ‘I’ll stop what I’m doing to put other people’s priorities ahead of mine no matter who they are or what they want.’ Spelled out, this sounds insane. But instant-response insanity is our culture’s default behavior.”

- From Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky

"It's hard to build momentum if you're dividing your attention."

- James Clear

“The first discipline is to focus your finest efforts on the one or two goals that will make all the difference, instead of giving mediocre effort to dozens of goals. Execution starts with focus.“

- From The Four Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling

“20% of what we do leads to 80% of the results; but 80% of what we do leads to only 20%. We are wasting 80% of our time on low-value outcomes.”

- From The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch

“High-Quality Work Produced = (Time Spent) x (Intensity of Focus). To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distraction.”

- From Deep Work by Cal Newport

“Productivity can be boiled down to one word - FOCUS. There are two types of focus you need to master productivity. First the ability to manage distractions so that you can focus moment-to-moment on the task at hand, and second, the skill of focusing on what’s truly important to you in the big picture, so you don’t waste your day on stupid stuff.”

- From The 5 Second Rule by Mel Robbins

“Success requires us to do the first things first. Choose to use your time wisely. Figure out what really matters to you and then use the rest of the steps to build habits that allow you to focus your time on it.”

- From The Perfect Day Formula by Craig Ballantyne

"Live the Pareto Principle lifestyle:

Relationships. Who are the few people that have the most positive impact on my life? Spend more time with them.

Priorities. What are the few actions that have the most positive impact on my day? Prioritize them.

Learning. What are the few information sources I learn the most from? Focus on them.

Stress. What are the few sources that cause most of the stress and friction in my life? Eliminate them."

- James Clear