Quotes About Mindfulness

Merely having thoughts is one thing. Consciously feeding them is quite another. You are powerful all the time, by way of your attention and intention. The question is, Toward what are you pointing that power?

We fought so hard against the small things that we became small ourselves. —EUGENE O'NEILL

Anything that causes you to overreact or underreact can control you, and often does. Responding inappropriately to your e-mail, your thoughts about what you need to do, your children, or your boss will lead to less effective results than you'd like. Most people give either more or less attention to things than they deserve, simply because they don't operate with a mind like water.

This would be a Zen-like state of productivity, in which you deal with what's present from a perspective that is both detached and fully engaged.

Reacting is automatic, but thinking is not. The

Anything that does not belong where it is, the way it is, is an "open loop," which will be pulling on your attention if it's not appropriately managed. In

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking. —THOMAS EDISON

I have learned over the years that the most important thing to deal with is whatever is most on your mind. The fact that you think it shouldn't be on your mind is irrelevant. It's there, and it's there for a reason.

sort of planning activity: (1) those that still have your attention even after you've determined their next actions, and (2) those about which potentially

Handle what has your attention and you'll then discover what really has your attention.

You've got to think about the big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.

The trick is to ensure not so much that what you are doing is, for you, the right thing, all the time (how, ultimately, could you know that for sure?) but that you are firmly in the driver's seat with a functioning process for discovering and engaging with your best choice.

More often than not, it seems that people are having thoughts, though not really thinking about what they're thinking about—at least not in an effective way that resolves, advances, or manages the content.

You may want to begin by asking yourself, "What behavior might undermine what I'm doing, and how can I prevent it?" That will give you a good starting point for defining your standards.

Tu trabajo consiste en descubrir tu trabajo y luego entregarte a él en cuerpo y alma. —BUDA

Not being aware of all you have to do is much like having a credit card for which you don't know the balance or the limit - it's a lot easier to be irresponsible.

First of all, if it's on your mind, your mind isn't clear.

is possible to be effectively doing while you are delightfully being, in your ordinary workaday world.

Let's examine the three requirements to make the collection phase work: 1. | Every open loop must be in your collection system and out of your head. 2. | You must have as few collection buckets as you can get by with. 3. | You must empty them regularly.

the three requirements to make the capturing phase work: 1  |  Every open loop must be in your capture system and out of your head. 2  |  You must have as few capturing buckets as you can get by with. 3 | You must empty them regularly.

Ask yourself, "When do I need to see what, in what form, to get it off my mind?" You build a system for function, not just to have a system.

Too much information creates the same result as too little:

it is championing appropriate engagement with your world—guiding you to make the best choice of what to do in each moment, and to eliminate distraction and stress about what you're not doing.

You can only put your conscious attention on one thing at a time. If that's all that has your attention, you're in flow.