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Name: The Power of Unwavering Focus
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Author: Dandapani

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What’s in it for me? Reclaim your life by mastering one simple skill: mental focus.

It’s a brisk September morning in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Gusty winds rustle the tall grass sprouting between rocky outcrops. The chill in the early morning air makes it feel alive. We’re here to see the wild Mustang horses on their nature reserve.

Suddenly, in a cloud of hooves and fury, a herd comes flashing up the canyon. Snorting clouds of steam in the morning air, they jump and buck and turn on a dime. They scrabble up cliffs and perch on dizzying outcrops. Frolicking in the cool air they’re a vision of strength, power, and endless, chaotic motion.

Now imagine you are asked to ride one of these wild horses right now. Just hop on and experience that raw power and speed for yourself. Would you say yes?

Even if you train horses for a living the answer is likely still a resounding no! All that power and energy is awesome – but uncontrollable. And you simply don’t have the skills to make that wild horse follow your commands and keep you safe.

The same is true of your mind. The human mind is powerful and full of energy, but it, too, often runs wild throughout the day as we multitask, scroll, and ruminate on the past or worry about the future. This distraction might interfere with relationships, increase stress – even keep you up at night.

In this Blink, we’ll look at how mastering one key skill – the ability to focus – can harness the power of awareness to help you live a more stress-free, successful, and rewarding life. You’ll learn how consistent practice in focus can deepen your relationships, overcome stress, and help you chart a path toward your goals that is clear, measurable, and achievable.

Like training a wild horse, it will take daily practice. But if you want to ride off into a fulfilled, happy life harnessing the awesome power of your mind, let's trot together into the first section.

Happiness is a lifestyle, not a goal.

It’s early morning in Sarah’s kitchen, and she’s half-awake and making coffee before the kids get up for school. Smartphone in one hand, she’s scrolling notifications while shoveling coffee grounds with the other. Noticing the time, she shuffles over to the fridge to start breakfast when email notifications start pinging.

Not smelling coffee, she notices she didn’t turn it on. Frustrated, she jabs at the button before her eyes wander again to her phone, curious about the new emails.

Her pulse jumps as she reads that a colleague is sick and can’t do a presentation this afternoon. Sarah’s mood jumps from frustration to fear – she hates giving presentations. Her heart pounds as she imagines the team asking her to step in.

Now she’s riding a roller coaster of emotions and worries. Just then her kids bound down the stairs for breakfast. She snaps at them to go get dressed as she’s running late. Instantly regretting the harsh words, she sees their good mood disappear. What can she do? she thinks to herself. She’s got a million things on her mind and the kids will understand.

Her day is already full of frustration, worry, anger, and sadness.

After years of mornings like this, Sarah feels burned out and disconnected from her kids. She’s unhappy and wonders how things got this way.

Now let’s imagine the same morning, but this time Sarah does one thing differently: she focuses her mind.

Rising early after a good night’s sleep, Sarah makes her bed – closing her sleep routine before starting the day. Once complete, she gives her full attention to the next task, making her coffee. Then does the same with breakfast, and so on.

She’s already decided not to check her notifications until later at the office so she can give her full attention to her morning. Sensing her attention, the kids feel happy and loved. Their joy and openness over breakfast bring her happiness, too, and they start the day happy.

Focusing like this throughout the day means that each client or task that arises gets Sarah's full presence. Feeling energized by her interactions, she brings that feeling home at the end of the day to her family. After years of this routine, Sarah feels fulfilled. Her relationships thrive and her projects are rewarding.

While the goal was the same – get up and start the day – these two Sarahs end up very far apart. The only difference? One used her daily routines to practice focusing her awareness and the other didn’t. How can focus make such a difference? It all comes down to the mind.

The mind doesn’t wander, but awareness does.

If focusing the mind is so powerful, it’s a good idea to spend a few moments now to understand how the mind and awareness work.

First, your mind exists in three states, a conscious, a subconscious, and a superconscious mind. Others might define these differently, but for our purposes let’s consider these states using unfocused Sarah as our guide.

Renounce multitasking to reclaim your awareness.

Understanding the states of mind and the role awareness plays in navigating them, leads to a startling point. Your mind isn’t you, your awareness is.

To find out why, let’s return to our wild Mustang horses but twist our metaphor just a little bit. Let’s imagine just one of those racing mustangs as our awareness. For most of us, this awareness runs wild and untrained throughout our vast minds. As a result, our awareness races from place to place, situation to situation, until it exhausts itself. Darting between the past and future, it might cover miles in a day, but it wasn’t moving toward any defined goal. It only stops to rest when exhausted. A creature of habit, it returns again and again to the same places, even dangerous ones – even though it’s harmful to long-term survival. The vast area the horse wanders through doesn’t change much, but where the horse wanders determines how it experiences life.

Focus requires practice and progress tracking.

To begin, start small. You wouldn’t hop off the couch after a long holiday weekend of burgers and beer to run the New York City Marathon. You wouldn’t make it very far and likely give up running altogether after a few sweaty miles.

To start practicing focus it’s best not to attempt becoming a yogi overnight, either. Think of how many hours in the day you go down social media rabbit holes, or find yourself running late because you were mulling over a fight you had and lost track of time. You’ve spent a lifetime practicing distraction, it’ll take time to practice focus.

Focus can help overcome worry, anxiety, and stress.

Returning to unfocused Sarah one last time, let’s use her awareness to uncover some common enemies of focus.

When she reads the work email, her awareness flies from preparing breakfast to the part of her mind where she projects the future. She imagines herself nervous and sweaty in front of the client, her mouth dry and stammering. Her awareness might have flown backward remembering an earlier experience in life when she was afraid in front of a group. As her awareness moves to this part of her mind, she’s flooded with unresolved emotions from the past, and projects them into the future.

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The Power of Unwavering Focus (2022) is a practical and personal guide that offers clear steps toward ending the distractions, fears, and worries that keep us stressed out and anxious, while carving a clear path toward more mental clarity and focus. Packed with concrete steps and personal reflections, it offers a deep look into the awesome power of the mind and how focus can help everyone live a more purposeful and joyful life.

Wer The Power of Unwavering Focus lesen sollte

Exhausted multitaskers feeling lost in the grind
Goal-seekers looking for a clearer path to success
Anyone wanting to live with more purpose in daily life

Über den Autor

Dandapani is an entrepreneur and Hindu priest who speaks internationally on topics of focus and awareness drawing from his experience as both a father and a former monk.

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