"Control Stimuli. Cutting back the number of distractions in your immediate environment increases your ability to choose where you attention goes, improves your concentration, bolsters creative thinking, and makes you less susceptible to both impulsive acts and poorly thought-out decisions."

— Anthony Rao and Dr. Paul Napper, Power of Agency

"Disconnecting from technology at the end of the workday is a powerful act of self-care that allows us to recharge, unwind, and create a sense of balance in our lives."

— Neil Pasricha, The Happiness Equation

"An evening routine provides a dedicated time to disconnect from digital distractions, fostering mindfulness and promoting a deeper connection with ourselves and those around us."

— Cal Newport, Deep Work

"Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions."

- Tim Ferriss

"The goal isn't to know everything. It's to know enough—and then act. Your entire life will change when you stop looking for more information and start acting on the information you already have."

- Sahil Bloom

"Being specific about what you want and how you will achieve it helps you say no to things that derail progress, distract your attention, and pull you off course."

- James Clear, Atomic Habits

"Environment is destiny. It is the x factor that will determine whether you achieve wild and rapid success or spin your wheels in the mud for years."

- Craig Ballantyne, The Perfect Day Formula

"Attention, on the other hand, is life: your experience of being alive consists of nothing other than the sum of everything to which you pay attention."

- Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"Answering emails, taking phone calls, and sitting in meetings have a way of taking over your schedule and rarely lead to making major improvements in your life. For your own happiness and to protect the time necessary to focus on the deep work, the first few hours of your day must be grabbed by you, for you. Fight for it."

- Mel Robbins, The 5 Second Rule

"By disconnecting from the constant stream of notifications and demands, we give ourselves permission to relax, recharge, and fully engage with our personal lives after work."

- Cal Newport, Digital Minimalism

"Avoid switching between tasks. Focus deeply on one thing at a time."

- Cal Newport, Deep Work

"Because in reality your time is finite, doing anything requires sacrifice—the sacrifice of all the other things you could have been doing with that stretch of time. If you never stop to ask yourself if the sacrifice is worth it, your days will automatically begin to fill not just with more things, but with more trivial or tedious things."

- Oliver Burkeman, Four Thousand Weeks

"Don’t let trivial distractions steal your days."

- Seneca

"Be ruthless about what you ignore. Time, energy, and resources are so precious. Every pretty good, sorta nice, kinda fun thing you abandon is like shedding a weighted vest that lets you move at top speed."

- James Clear

"All that matters in life is doing the work on what really matters. Everything else is just entertainment."

- Craig Ballantyne, The Dark Side of Discipline

"Cut the cord. Free yourself. Set new norms that treat these technologies as what they are: poison. The new cigarettes."

- Max Fisher, The Chaos Machine

"All this noise. All this information. All these inputs. We are afraid of the silence. We are afraid of looking stupid. We are afraid of missing out. We are afraid of being the bad guy who says, ‘Nope, not interested.’ We’d rather make ourselves miserable than make ourselves a priority, than be our best selves. Than be still…and in charge of our own information diet."

- Ryan Holiday, Stillness is the Key

"I began to view attention as the most important ingredient we can add if we’re to become more productive, creative, and happy—at work and at home."

— Chris Bailey, Hyperfocus

"When there are too many competing demands on our time and attention, our ability to be present is diminished – and with it, our ability to appreciate and enjoy the experience."

- Nobert Schwartz

“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen.”

- Henry David Thoreau