Before you sweat the logistics of focus: first, care. Care intensely.... Obsessing over the slipperiness of focus, bemoaning the volume of those devil "distractions," and constantly reassessing which shiny new "system" might make your life suddenly seem more sensible - these are all terrifically useful warning flares that you may be suffering from a deeper, more fundamental problem.... Know in your heart that what you're making or doing matters... First, care. Then, as you'll happily and unavoidably discover, all that "focus" business has a peculiar way of taking care of itself.

When you die, no one's going to remember what iPhone you had.

Like tornadoes and cold sores, good work happens with total disregard to whether I'm 'into it.'

I'm a project manager, not a magician. Magicians have way cooler hats.

Where you allow your attention to go ultimately says more about you as a human being than anything that you put in your mission statement.

People with tiny glasses and costly shoes can always find a couple of hours to explain how you did it all wrong.

Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging.