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Taking this idea further, consider what happens when you think you’re giving your best effort but in fact haven’t set your goals high enough. Artist Michelangelo wrote, “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high, and we miss it, but that it is too low, and we reach it.”

The Ball's in Your Court

Michael Lewis

Time pressure is external. Focus comes from inside you, where no one else can control it. Time creates distractions. Focus blocks them out. Time tells you to hurry. Focus tells time to STFU. When you’re managing time, all you can see is how long it will take. When you’re managing focus, you don’t care. Time is about others. Focus is all about you.

Winning

Tim S. Grover

The second realization I had is that the pursuit of money can, at best, mitigate the frustrations in your career—yet the siren song of riches has confused and confounded some of the best in our society. In order to really find happiness, you need to continue looking for opportunities that you believe are meaningful, in which you will be able to learn new things, to succeed, and be given more and more responsibility to shoulder. There’s an old saying: find a job that you love and you’ll never work a day in your life. People who truly love what they do and who think their work is meaningful have a distinct advantage when they arrive at work every day. They throw their best effort into their jobs, and it makes them very good at what they do.

How Will You Measure Your Life?

Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon

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