Attention Management Extended Excerpt Quotes

“But these behaviors don’t help. In fact, they actually undermine our ability to live a life of choice—rather than one of reaction and distraction—and to do what matters most to us—both personally and professionally. When you change what you’re doing in response to every incoming distraction, you never get the quiet, uninterrupted time you need to get in “flow”—that immersive, highly focused state where you both do your best work and feel most satisfied by your work. Furthermore, if part of your attention is always lured away by these distractions, your mind never gets the calm, restful time it needs to recharge. As a result, you get cranky, impatient, and scattered, and your judgment, learning, creativity, and problem-solving abilities suffer.”
― Maura Thomas, Attention Management Extended Excerpt: Breaking the Time Management Myth for Unrivaled Productivity

“our own restless minds worrying about other things we need to be doing.”
― Maura Thomas, Attention Management Extended Excerpt: Breaking the Time Management Myth for Unrivaled Productivity

“Here’s the bottom line: the job of the internet is to keep you on the internet. We’re stuck in a productivity paradox: we need these tools to do our jobs, but the job of these tools is to keep us using the tools, at the expense of doing our jobs…or anything else!”
― Maura Thomas, Attention Management Extended Excerpt: Breaking the Time Management Myth for Unrivaled Productivity

“We’re hung up on the old-fashioned idea of managing time, but to live the lives we really want to live, what we actually need to master is managing our attention.”
― Maura Thomas, Attention Management Extended Excerpt: Breaking the Time Management Myth for Unrivaled Productivity

“The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. —Tom Peters”
― Maura Thomas, Attention Management Extended Excerpt: Breaking the Time Management Myth for Unrivaled Productivity

“You can’t purchase a product or service you’ve never heard of, so before a company can get your business, they must first get your attention.”
― Maura Thomas, Attention Management Extended Excerpt: Breaking the Time Management Myth for Unrivaled Productivity