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every second spent worrying about a past or future moment distracts us from what is important in the here and now.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
(Attend and attention actually share the root meaning, “stretching to.”)
Steve Bodansky • Extended Massive Orgasm, Updated and Illustrated: How you can give and receive intense sexual pleasure (Positively Sexual)
When kicking off a brief –or writing first iterations of anything really– your thinking should always be in extremes. No caveats. No middle ground. Everything to 11.
doesn’t come from applying our resources proportionately throughout different areas. In fact, it’s just the opposite. Success usually is the result of focusing our talents, money, time or energy in one priority direction for a shorter period of time to create a desired result,
Rory Vaden • Procrastinate on Purpose
Mindfulness is being aware of what’s happening in the present moment; concentration is maintaining that attention.
Thich Nhat Hanh • Peace Is Every Breath: A Practice For Our Busy Lives
The science is very clear. The human brain can give its full focus to only one single object at any given moment.
Sean Covey • The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Revised and Updated: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
The good news is that we can train ourselves to stay focused on one thing for longer if we avoid multitasking, remove possible distractions and separate different kinds of tasks as much as possible so they will not interfere with each other.
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking
If your points are too diverse, they compete with each other, and end up pulling the reader’s attention in separate directions.”
John Forde • Great Leads: The Six Easiest Ways to Start Any Sales Message
Your ability to use the principle of auto-suggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to CONCENTRATE upon a given DESIRE until that desire becomes a BURNING OBSESSION.