Quotes About Focus

Make the behavior so tiny that you don't need much motivation.

The purpose of a Focus Map is to match yourself with easy behaviors that you want to do and that are effective in getting you to your aspiration.

People often believe that motivating themselves toward an aspiration will lead to lasting change. So people focus on aspirations. And they focus on motivation. And that combo doesn't produce results.

One should not grieve for the past and worry for the future. The wise care for the present and chart their life's course accordingly.

B.K. Chaturvedi

True concentration is an unbroken thread of awareness.

We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects.

Stability-The Physical Body (Asana)

As the modern saying goes, we should live in the solution, not in the problem.

Notice your eyes as well, as you hold the stretch. Tenseness of the eyes also affects the brain. If the eyes are still and silence the brain is still and passive.

in all asanas, ascend to descend and descend to ascend.

Always watch your base: Be attentive to the portion nearest the ground. Correct first form the root.

The asana will not come by making faces.

You have to tame your breath to tame your brain. Live from moment to moment absorbed in the unruffled flow of the circular movement of the in- and out-breaths. It's current should be like that of a very full, stately river, whose movements cannot be seen.

If you want a simple way to remember the relationship between asana and concentration (dharana), it is this: If you learn a lot of little things, one day you may end up knowing a big thing.

The moment you bring attention, you are creating something, and creation has life and energy.

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.

Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted.

He that cannot contract the sight of his mind, as well as disperse and dilate it, wanteth a great faculty.

That which is past is gone and irrevocable, and wise men have enough to do with things present and to come.

Another precept is to practise all things chiefly at two several times, the one when the mind is best disposed, the other when it is worst disposed; that by the one you may gain a great step, by the other you may work out the knots and stonds of the mind, and make the middle times the more easy and pleasant.

My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.

Being world No 1 would be fantastic but you'd like to do it by finishing the year as No 1 without anything happening off the table to someone else's ranking.