Over the years, talk was cheap, and as our understanding grew about how hard and expensive it would be to achieve the goal of finding cure(s), it became more difficult to sustain our focus and priority on doing so.
To be economically sustainable, our redevelopment must also be focused on sustaining our quality of life -- preserving our open space, protecting our drinking water and recycling and reusing formerly productive properties instead of gobbling up our precious few virgin ones.
A greater focus on sustaining our partnership with the local government beyond the drafting and submission of the plans would likely have helped retain momentum and interest in the strategies.
Then, there's the degree to which you sustain your focus on that particular object, despite distractions.
If for some reason we find ourselves in a situation where our blog isn't generating the necessary funds for sustaining this lifestyle, then our focus will remain primarily on the freelance services we provide, such as social media growth/management, photography and videography, amongst other things.
"Stay on it, and sustain it, that's one of the biggest challenges, sustaining the focus, sustaining the urgency," he said.
Many organizations have achieved dramatic performance improvements by sustaining a focus on implementation of strategy.
"I'm talking about guys having good, solid at-bats and sustaining their focus throughout the whole game".
Our focus is to sustain, grow, and compete.
I'm not a novelist, but I've worked on several long projects since having a child, and you're right: sustaining focus is exhausting.
It rated other techniques — for sharpening organizational skills, sustaining focus or improving overall functioning — lower still, with only a hint of evidence to back them up.
