How To Know What Is A Distraction vs. An Opportunity
In a world filled with distraction, attention is our competitive advantage. Look at each day as a challenge—and an opportunity—to keep your eye on the prize.
99U • Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (99U)
Distraction is not procrastination. Procrastination consistently undermines our ability to make things. Distraction is a strategy in service of the work.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
We’re being asked, in other words, to simultaneously resist and embrace distraction to advance in our careers—a troubling paradox.
99U • Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (99U)
Focus in a world filled with distractions makes you remarkable.
Dan Rockwell • How the Power of Focus Protects You
In a world filled with distraction, attention is our competitive advantage. Look at each day as a challenge—and an opportunity—to keep your eye on the prize.
99U • Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (99U)
Look beyond the corner. Business is the same way—you need to be looking further ahead than the next day or week or month. Don’t chase every shiny object, don’t be distracted by every new tactic. If you’re going to change course or pursue a new direction, make sure you’re doing so for a sound strategic reason.