Robin Sharma Quotes

Airplanes are a good place to concentrate because you get no emails, no phone calls.

Stay focused, ignore the distractions, and you will accomplish your goals much faster.

Three hours of focused time on the projects that will really add value and uplift your career are so much better than 10 hours where you are constantly being interrupted and taken off your focus.

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

I used to tape over the top corner of my computer screen so I couldn't see what time it was. I like the idea that I'm just with the words and not knowing what's going on with the world, when it's lunch or dinner.

A lot of people don't feel like doing very much. Or one project is really all they can do at one time. I can have five or six things going at the same time. It doesn't bother me or tire me, but sometimes it does rattle me.

There is great power in focusing on what you want..... The person who tries to do everything accomplishes nothing. Most people try to be all things to everyone. And so they end up being nothing to anyone. Confucius nailed the point: "Person who chases two rabbits catches neither."

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything.

Stop managing your time. Start managing your focus.

Most people have no idea of the giant capacity we can immediately command when we focus all of our resources on mastering a single area of our lives.

When I'm working, I always listen to music to zone everyone else out.

I have a deadline. I'm glad. I think that will help me get it done.

To do two things at once is to do neither.

The ability to concentrate and to use time well is everything.

I'm more focused and have a greater sense of challenge, because I constantly feel the weight of time.

I attribute much of my success in New York to my ability to understand and avoid unnecessary distractions.

I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone you're so focused that time ceases to exist. It's when you think, 'Oh, I've been doing this for five hours and didn't even know it.' It's the difference between hard work and going, '12 o'clock, not moving.'

I couldn't understand why my productivity went down when I had deliberately made more time available to write. Then I realized it was because I wasn't flying as much.

Intellectual work is essentially a lonely process, and if you can find a way of doing something so that you're in company without being disturbed, that, for me, is the critical thing. I often get to feel isolated so often if I'm sitting either where there aren't people or isn't a view.

The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time - but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

I'm usually working on several things at once. If I get bored with one, I can go on to another. That way, I never get stuck.

Sometimes entrepreneurs, successful people, need to put their blinders back on. They're losing their day to distraction, to faulty obligations.

I have found that if I spend the first hour of my day at home, I get more done, and less people steal my time.

I want to concentrate on work and won't do anything to divert my concentration.

The biggest challenge is to stay focused. It's to have the discipline when there are so many competing things.