During his first high school semester the coach of the basketball team sits him down and tells him that in order to be a pro one day, he is going to need to focus on one sport and give it his all.
Simply put, we tried to learn how to focus on one thing at a time and how to fully become absorbed in that mindful study without yielding to the thousands of thoughts that our minds can produce.
"To assist the committee, I would like to focus on one particular factor, the role played by one accounting rule applied to corporations, " Sullivan told lawmakers.
When setting your goals for the New Year, make a list of all you want to accomplish in 2013, then choose to focus on one goal that will either have the greatest impact on your finances, is easy to accomplish, or simply is the one with the greatest chance of success.
Each blog post needs to focus on one key phrase or theme from your keyword regime.
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So today I want to focus on one component of that, and that is education.
As the convoluted title of this book suggests, Robert Peston struggles to focus on one topic.
Within the Chinese consumer market, I would like to focus on one group in particular, the luxury consumer market.
To focus on one pre-tax loss figure is to miss a much bigger, more complex and more interesting picture.
Instead, they are coached to focus on one thing: the next challenge.
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However, the monks - who carried out "one-point" meditation, where they focus attention on a single object or thought - were able to focus on one image.
Such specificity enables the player, who is wrapped up in the moment of the game, to focus on one or two things as a means of exerting effort and making plays.
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Feminism insists on women's right to make choices -- about whether to marry, whether to have children, whether to combine work and family or to focus on one over the other.
GE, on the other hand, decided to focus on one turbine size that met the needs of markets where tight spaces were not a constraint and devoted resources to optimizing the efficiency of that turbine model.
In a nutshell, rather than targetting every industry out there, cloud providers might want to focus on one or two, and continue to innovate along the requirements and expectations of businesses and individuals in that industry.
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There are a few areas of the IBRC liquidation and transaction that remain unclear to me however I just want to focus on one and was wondering if you had any thoughts on the matter or if there is something I am missing.
You can come up with what you think is a brilliant idea, one that can be supported by research and stand up to focus testing, one that can be logically extended or tweaked to work in multiple situations across a good length of time.
Rather than trying to improve all dimensions at once, I encourage companies to focus only on one or two critical items with each survey cycle (another reason to ideally conduct them once or twice a year).
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One mistake advertisers make is to focus too heavily on one demographic (such as male youths), according to Rucker.
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To understand why, one needs to focus on an accounting relationship: by definition, the sum of net private-sector saving (saving less investment) and public-sector saving (the budget balance) must be equal to a country's current-account balance.
To focus on just one of the experts on this panel, the positions and connections of Prof.
It was a long-sought opportunity to focus on just one thing: her singing.
As for my sporting endeavor, I decided to focus on the one where I only compete with myself: running.
But it will become increasingly difficult to focus intensely on one or two issues while blocking out the rest of the noise.
Last year, Muralitharan said he intended to focus on playing one-day cricket until the 2011 World Cup, and would thereafter concentrate exclusively on Twenty20 cricket.
Were I to focus exclusively on one of hundreds of topics, like monetary policy or roads and bridges, I could easily spend all my time.
By contrast, Jobvite CEO Dan Finnigan says that limiting your focus to one networking site puts you at a disadvantage compared to more well-rounded peers.
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It is better for an individual organization to choose one focus and perform well, rather than choose both SME and IDE, leaving the organization unfocused and unsuccessful.
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Wall Street is notorious for its ability to focus on only one thing at a time, and at the moment that thing seems to be the Eurozone.
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