It’s quite something to get the whole world to focus on one thing.
It’s really something to get one person to focus on one thing.
Tag Archives: distraction
Using Fear To Leverage Your Attention For What’s Important
Our awareness then, as a scanning mechanism of our environment, is greatly affected if we are looking for where God is showing up in the midst of our present moment.
Lonely Life Learners
Knowing something about someone online is just like reading a book about them. But hearing their inflection in their tone, smelling the room you are both in, glancing out the window behind them and seeing the blazing setting sun, these items create a full experience attached to the knowledge you are gaining about them.
Minimize Input To Maximize Output
Clearly we need to have inputs in order to have outputs. But minimizing low quality and high frequency inputs fosters the necessary space to create, and create well.
Value Defining; Or A Tool To Say No
The art of saying no is tied to knowing one’s own values and sticking to them.
When You Need To Fail: Getting An F In Distraction
There are things in life we believe we must be flawless with when in reality we need to simply do our best with them for the season we are in. Our best may even be to fail at them temporarily.
Knowing Is Not Half The Battle: The G.I. Joe Fallacy
Ever find yourself with stacks on stacks of dream journals/goal setting apps/vision boards? How about half finished notebooks? Like stacks of them? I heard author Jon Acuff say this a few times. He has half filled notebooks of ideas instead of finishing one notebook. This wouldn’t be a problem if, say, he referred to them …
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The Needed Extreme: No News At All
There was a moment of time recently where there was nothing to do for 5 minutes. Of course I reached for my phone. But this time, it was to read one of the good blogs I use to read from but had abandoned for social media scrolling. The corrective behavior paid off immediately. When I …
Building The Plane While Flying It (And Performing Surgery Mid Flight)
If I hear this phrase uttered one more time while it is accepted as a societal norm and fact of life everyone just has to deal with…. I digress. But the spirit of this title is what I present in this brief post. The better analogy might be performing surgery on yourself. The purpose of …
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Strength In Solitude Part 2: This Anxious Generation
An entire generation has “eliminated time alone with their thoughts from their lives,” and subsequently, it is this young generation who is experiencing tremendous spikes in anxiety and mental health deterioration. The quoted line above is found on page 108 from the book Digital Minimalism by computer professor Cal Newport. The generation in question is …
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Return To Eremos 