The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus Into Your Life

Credit cards work on the premise of product before process instead of process first. This mentality only leads to a general sense of non-fulfillment and emptiness. We have all experienced a situation where we wanted something very much but didn't have the money for it, so we charged it. The fulfillment from attaining the object is usually gone long

You can see how these four components are all part of the same thing. Each one needs and creates the other. When you work slowly, things become simpler. If you want to simplify something, break it down into small parts and work more slowly. Since all of these points take effort to develop and maintain, you will have greater success if you break dow

What is required is that you are aware of what you want to achieve, that you know the motions you must intentionally repeat to accomplish the goal, and that you execute your actions with no emotions or judgments; just stay on course.

Speaking about what she was reading, she said, “You need to keep reviewing these ideas so that you can hang on to the clarity and perspective. Otherwise, life steals it away.”

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Working on a piano is repetitious, tedious and monotonous to say the least. Everything you do to the instrument you must do at least 88 times. This forces you to let go of anything but the most practical and efficient attitude toward the daily work that faces you in the shop and on the stage. If you do not possess at least a minimal level of discip

What I have found is that the only difference between the two activities is that we have pre-judged them. We have made a conscious decision that if we enjoy an activity it is not work. We must temporarily suspend our definition of work as referring to our daily vocation. “Work” in this discussion refers to any activity we don’t feel like doing, and

I told her that it might seem hard to believe, but that the feelings she was experiencing right then were just emotions and that they would pass. I also told her, “If at the end of that time you still feel that you really have to have a pogo stick like hers, I will buy you one for executing the patience.”

he had learned he could completely enjoy anything he was doing, provided he stayed in the present with his mind and just focused on the process of what he was doing right then.