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Your time. Your focus. Your choice.

By Jim Connolly | November 30, 2014

professsional development, business

The people you surrender your attention to, control what you do.

The endless stream of emails, messages and social media updates consume both your time and your focus.

  • Time you can never regain is lost reacting to the immediate, yet unimportant calls for your attention.
  • Your focus is pulled away from your most important work, making it hard for you to concentrate.

You then look back on the day and wonder why you worked so hard, feel so tired, yet made so little progress.

Be extremely selective who you surrender your attention to. It’s one of the most important decisions you make throughout your working day.

Tip — Read this. It will help you get the direction and clarity you need.

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