If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves.

Decide the outcome and the action step, put reminders of those somewhere your brain trusts youll see them at the right time, and listen to your brain breathe easier.

Your brain has an in-built mechanism for finding patterns you've programmed because of where you've put your attention. Solutions, innovations, and success come not from greater intelligence or creativity but from what we notice because of where we point those attributes

It's easier to change directions if you are in motion.

The problem is, is when your focus is created by a crisis, then the frontal lobe shuts down essentially, the frontal cortex which is your intuitive intelligence. So you get very clever and very stupid in a crisis. Also, you pump adrenalin into your body from what you - physiologically you'll crash.

There are no interruptions, only mismanaged inputs

Much of the stress that people feel doesn't come from having too much to do. It comes from not finishing what they've started.