People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on. But that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the hundred other good ideas.
This is actually Steve Jobs, not James Clear — though it is widely misattributed. Jobs was responding to a question about what Apple would focus on after his return. His answer reveals the painful truth about focus: the hard part is not choosing what to do. It is choosing what to stop doing, especially when the things you are stopping are genuinely good.
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
Aristotle“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.”
Lao Tzu“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.”
Benjamin Franklin“It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.”
Seneca