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: focus
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.
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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Recapture
Given enough lag in keeping up, I sensed this blog might eventually turn into a journal of sorts. It’s what happens when I lose focus (ie, the overarching theme of this site!). But this post could serve as a bookmark of sorts. A moment captured to look back at as a pivot point. Because the …
Don’t Post That Right Away
Allow me to combine two thoughts from Seth Godin and Steven Pressfield. Shipping and the Muse. Shipping something early betrays what it is. It is a gift to work on, not to impulsively act on. Never shipping is bad of course, becoming the terrible perfectionist this course of innaction produces. But shipping on first thought, …
Diminshed Time
On a personal note, I find myself hounding the topic of digital retreating due to the incredible amount of wasted time I see in my rearview mirror. At first it can seem justified. The amount of blogs I have read (which as long as they are good credible ones). The amount of chats I have …
Attention Leads To Awareness
I’ve never become more aware of the strawman ‘evil rich person’ I painted in my mind than I have in recent years. Having grown up with an easy to accept construct fed from family and cable news, telling me rich people are not to be trusted, how evil they are, how elitist they act, I …
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