If you want to pursue something then go after those which catches the attention of your heart then it will be worthy of pursuit.
The eyes may be fooled but the heart knows what is valuable. So don’t just keep it in your mind, but start using it in real life. That don’t run behind glittering things which catch your eyes as it may be useless and unworthy.
Not to waste time on such things which your eyes may find attractive as it is pointless.
Use your heart to take decisions not to trust your eyes which may mislead you.
That is everything catches our eye very fast and we get side tracked or distracted. So if you want to stay focused then you have to follow your heart.
That you must be self-disciplined to not to stray from your original purpose. Concentrate on your work or deeds instead of diverting your attention towards unwanted shiny things that catch your eyes.
Be sensible and responsible in life and do what is right and not what is easy nor what is popular.
So stay focused and just train yourselves to keep only important things in mind. It will make your life easier and peaceful.
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Thank you ….Your attention determines the experiences you have, and the experiences you have determine the life you live.
Or said another way: You must control your attention to control your life.
Better attention management leads to improved productivity, but it’s about much more than checking things off a to-do list.
The ultimate result is the ability to create a life of choice, around things that are important to you. It’s more than just exercising focus. It’s about taking back control over your time and your priorities.
I believe in the power of mentoring and coaching my team members.
This is how I make a difference, and it’s what gives me satisfaction at work.
I started the year with a coaching plan for my team, but it’s fallen by the wayside amid everything else that is going on.
My one-on-ones with team members don’t happen as often as I would like, and the content is too much ‘trees’ and not enough ‘forest.’
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Even if you see yourself as a passionate advocate for coaching and mentoring, you won’t have the impact you’d like if your actions and experiences don’t reflect these values your experience is what you attend to.
And your experiences become your life.
So if your attention continues getting diverted, and email, meetings, and “firefighting” consume your days, pretty soon weeks or months will have gone by and your life becomes full of the “experiences” you never really intended to have.
So why don’t we just have the experiences we want to have, and create the lives we most want to lead?
Why does this painful gulf exist between the selves we aspire to and how we spend our time?
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You then become so afraid of forgetting to do some small task — like sending an email or forwarding a document — that you start to do everything as soon as you’ve thought of it; but then you end up getting sucked into your overflowing inbox before you know it.
Moreover, knowing that you have a catalog of all the world’s knowledge at your fingertips — in terms of the internet on your smartphone — makes it difficult to be comfortable in a state of “I don’t know,” and hard to avoid the distracting temptation to “find out now.”
So you must also learn to control internal factors.
Control your behavior. Use those times when your technology is tamed and your do-not-disturb sign is up to get used to single-tasking: open only one window on your computer screen, and give your full attention to one task until it’s complete, or until a designated stopping point.
Take breaks throughout the day where you step away from your computer.
Try to “unplug” completely (no technology) for at least an hour or more, as often as you can. Try it for 15-20 minutes at first; then build up to an hour, or even 90 minutes.
Control your thoughts. For many of us, this is the hardest nut to crack, which is why I’ve left it to last. Minds are made to wander.
Practice noticing when your mind is veering off in its own direction, and gently guide your focus back to where you want it.
If you think of some important small task while you are doing focused work, jot it down on a notepad and come back to it later.
Do the same with information you want to look up online.
Practicing attention management will not eliminate distractions from your day.
But as you start to recognize when you become distracted, and build your “attention muscle” through habits like those above, you’ll start to reclaim your life and devote more of yourself to what’s really important to you.
Don’t allow distraction to derail your aspirations and intentions. Instead, control your attention to control your life.
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