Attention is your scarcest asset. Guard it.
Cal Newport, Deep Work
Multitasking is really fast task-switching, and every switch carries a tax. Depth comes from staying with one thing long enough to get somewhere.
Take one sixty-minute block today: phone in another room, one task, nothing else open.
The same presence you bring to your prayer, try to bring to your work.
Willpower and clarity are highest early and drain through the day. If you spend your first hour on other people's requests, you give away your best thinking.
Do your most important task before you open your inbox or messages.
Give your finest hours to what matters most, not to what shouts loudest.
attributed to Warren Buffett
List your goals, circle the vital few, then treat everything else as the list to actively avoid. The near-misses are what quietly steal your focus.
Write your current priorities, circle the five that matter most, and park the rest.
Saying no to the merely good is how you make room for the truly important.