Sentences with phrase «focusing on the boring»

Think of the last time you struggled to focus on a boring or difficult task.

The conversation can be direct — specifically adoption - focused — or indirect — focused on the bear's experience.

The study, which focused on bears that had learned to eat human food or food waste, found that the proportion of human foods in their diets decreased by about 63 percent after the new strategies were implemented.

If you're not already making high intensity resistance training (weight training) the foundation of your exercise routines, start putting more focus on this, and less focus on the boring cardio exercise routines.

At this week's FutureBook conference in London, a new specialized track on audiobooks will give attendees a chance to focus on the born - again format that keeps racking up sales.

In an environment of such irrational exuberance how can we expect Amazon to focus on the boring old market of eReaders?

Porter Anderson on Publishing Perspectives Golden Headsets: Audiobooks» Growth Is Music to Publishers» Ears «At this week's FutureBook conference in London, a new specialized track on audiobooks will give attendees a chance to focus on the born - again format that keeps racking up sales.»

Our September 2015 cover article focused on the Bear Alert in detail, so I won't cover that ground again except to briefly explain these two timing indicators.

But as an investor, high - frequency trading doesn't matter because you're focused on the boring work of buying good things and owning them for a long time.»

The other stock, Magnavox, did that also, so it is a testimony to my mother's own clever investing that I ended up in this business... my story aside, the point of the Litton chapter was to point out that not all earnings growth is real, and that it is far better to focus on boring companies than what seems glamorous and successful.

The landscape and story don't just unfold, they radically change based on your unflagging efforts, making it totally ok to play this for 80 - something hours rather than focusing on boring things like socializing or personal hygiene.

Titles like Overwatch or League of Legends have offered some fantastic and well - varied looks for their characters in the past, but Gigantic focuses on boring palette swaps.

Lego Batman 2, with its open world Gotham City and brilliant videogame interpretation of Superman was far more interesting to play than its 2014 sequel, for example, which mainly focused on some boring Green Lantern space adventures — and I love me some Green Lantern, even after the much - derided 2011 movie.

A substantial portion of the gearbox design section of the standard focuses on bearing design and reliability.

Instead of focusing on the bears, she talks to people on the frontlines of climate change, aiming to make climate change a story about humans rather than nature.

Most resumes are dry (so dry you need to drink a couple of glasses of water just to get through them) because they focus on boring job duties.

Not exact matches

«Solo skills» represents behaviors you can learn that are useful on your own, like to focus on a solo task, to meditate, to avoid feeling bored, and so on.

Companies that can meet that need — while outsourcing the boring stuff to focus on the essentials — look set to profit.

When I traveled with my partner, Chris, across various regions of Costa Rica in late August, I was impressed by how many of our guides and the wildlife experts we consulted with were born and raised in the region and had found work focused on conservation and wildlife preservation in their local communities.

«It's telling women they have the opportunity to put off child bearing and focus on their careers,» he said.

'' [Bush's] big areas of focus have always been on education and refocusing people on opportunities, no matter what income bracket they are born into,» says Stan Veuger, resident economist for the conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.

The same is not true for oil, observes Merran Smith, a leading campaigner for the Great Bear Rainforest who now heads up Clean Energy Canada, an NGO focused on hastening the country's transition to renewable energy.

When you do, it allows you to hyper focus on the tasks at hand and bring to bear all of your talents and skills to do amazing work.

Defense attorneys are focusing their efforts not on proving Tsarnaev's innocence but on trying to spare his life by persuading the jury that Tamerlan bore the brunt of the blame.

Secondly, a born leader can be a lousy manager, and Ennis believes companies put insufficient focus on developing management skills such as coaching and delegating without losing control.

That research actually bears out an earlier, more detailed study that Yesware conducted (albeit one that examined substantially fewer emails — about 500,000, focusing on sales emails).

LePage's latest outburst came after a newspaper reporter told the two - term, Tea Party - backed governor that state Representative Drew Gattine had described the governor as racist for focusing on black people as bearing primary responsibility for the drug trade in the state.

This message often is born from advertising or marketing teams, but you should remember that in the digital world, it's critical to focus on engagement.

He then took several questions in a row about plans for a self - driving car network and other long - term projects from the host of a YouTube channel focused on investing, praising the questions as not boring.

Webb does not put much stock in those financial literacy tests, either, since they often focus on arcane issues that have little bearing on the basics of saving money.

Knote the company was born in 2016, with the new focus being on lawyers, an increasingly popular target for AI developers.

The unicorns that are born the fastest are ones focused on industries such as real estate, on - demand, social media, or e-commerce.

We'll show the whole list of unicorns later in this article, but for now we will focus on the high level stuff: how many more unicorns are being born?

With 2016 providing many investors angst and concern that a bear market or market crash may be just beyond the corner, it's important to focus on companies with strong fundamentals.

Next Coast Ventures was born in 2015 with a simple vision to create a different kind of venture capital firm focused on «Next Coast» businesses.

In 2017 we've focused closely on bringing bitcoin's value to bear on the problems of high - value payments, which are often subject to slow bank transfer times or high processing fees and fraud rates with credit cards.

[01:10] Introduction [02:45] James welcomes Tony to the podcast [03:35] Tony's leap year birthday [04:15] Unshakeable delivers the specific facts you need to know [04:45] What James learned from Unshakeable [05:25] Most people panic when the stock market drops [05:45] Getting rid of your fear of investing [06:15] Last January was the worst opening, but it was a correction [06:45] You are losing money when you sell on corrections [06:55] Bear markets come every 5 years on average [07:10] The greatest opportunity for a millennial [07:40] Waiting for corrections to invest [08:05] Warren Buffet's advice for investors [08:55] If you miss the top 10 trading days a year... [09:25] Three different investor scenarios over a 20 year period [10:40] The best trading days come after the worst [11:45] Investing in the current world [12:05] What Clinton and Bush think of the current situation [12:45] The office is far bigger than the occupant [13:35] Information helps reduce fear [14:25] James's story of the billionaire upset over another's wealth [14:45] What money really is [15:05] The story of Adolphe Merkle [16:05] The story of Chuck Feeney [16:55] The importance of the right mindset [17:15] What fuels Tony [19:15] Find something you care about more than yourself [20:25] Make your mission to surround yourself with the right people [21:25] Suffering made Tony hungry for more [23:25] By feeding his mind, Tony found strength [24:15] Great ideas don't interrupt you, you have to pursue them [25:05] Never - ending hunger is what matters [25:25] Richard Branson is the epitome of hunger and drive [25:40] Hunger is the common denominator [26:30] What you can do starting right now [26:55] Success leaves clues [28:10] What it means to take massive action [28:30] Taking action commits you to following through [29:40] If you do nothing you'll learn nothing [30:20] There must be an emotional purpose behind what you're doing [30:40] How does Tony ignite creativity in his own life [32:00] «How is not as important as «why» [32:40] What and why unleash the psyche [33:25] Breaking the habit of focusing on «how» [35:50] Deep Practice [35:10] Your desired outcome will determine your action [36:00] The difference between «what» and «why» [37:00] Learning how to chunk and group [37:40] Don't mistake movement for achievement [38:30] Tony doesn't negotiate with his mind [39:30] Change your thoughts and change your biochemistry [40:00] The bad habit of being stressed [40:40] Beautiful and suffering states [41:50] The most important decision is to live in a beautiful state no matter what [42:40] Consciously decide to take yourself out of suffering [43:40] Focus on appreciation, joy and love [44:30] Step out of suffering and find the solution [45:00] Dealing with mercury poisoning [45:40] Tony's process for stepping out of suffering [46:10] Stop identifying with thoughts — they aren't yours [47:40] Trade your expectations for appreciation [50:00] The key to life — gratitude [51:40] What is freedom for you?

One of the things that helped me was I was working so hard and focusing on my career that I was largely able to ignore and ride out the bear markets.

Thundelarra has hit zones of high grade copper mineralisation at Red Bore and our exploration is focused on exploring for the source of that mineralisation, which could be extensions or repetitions of the DeGrussa mineralisation.

Baby boomers (born 1946 to 1964): By now, for most of you, the kids are out of house, and that means you can focus on retirement.

True was born in 2005 out of a simple vision: create a new kind of venture capital firm that focuses on supporting the earliest stage Founders and their teams.

«We expect many investors to focus on questions around strategic leadership as CEO Elon Musk hung up on analysts asking questions related to battery production runrate and what he deemed boring questions about financial and operational metrics.

Princeton's other great entrepreneurship classes have a strong focus on how companies and ventures are conceived and how they are born, my classes focus on the care and leading of ventures once they have been born.

Since my impression is that the Fund continues to nicely achieve its objectives, it's important that shareholders remember that those objectives focus on achieving strong absolute and risk - adjusted returns over the complete market cycle (i.e. peak - to - peak, bull markets and bear markets combined).

The energy division focuses on drilling products, bearings & compression along with automated equipment.

This strategy is often referred to as the bull bear strategy and focuses on monitoring, rising, declining and the flat trend line of the traded asset.

Given their focus on plant - based and cellular alternatives to animal products, much of GFI's work does not have a direct bearing on much of the animal advocacy movement, although they are contributing to a neglected and potentially high - impact area.

It's important to assess and prepare for a range of potential investment risks, rather than focusing only on what the prevailing market brings to bear.

Bear in mind it's an annual happening - in fact we featured GEW last year too, when it had as its focus the key collaborative theme of «pass it on».

But the capital distributions at Direxion also extend to a host of equity investments, including a bull and bear pair of ETFs focused on gold mining companies, which is more of a mystery.