focus

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It's a matter of ABC: When we encounter ADVERSITY, we react by thinking about it. Our thoughts rapidly congeal into BELIEFS. These beliefs may become so habitual we don't even realize we have them unless we stop to focus on them. And they don't just sit there idly; they have CONSEQUENCES. The beliefs are the direct cause of what we feel and what we do next. They can spell the difference between dejection and giving up, on the one hand, and well-being and constructive action on the other. The first step is to see the connection between adversity, belief, and consequence. The second step is to see how the ABCs operate every day in your own life.

- Seligman, Martin E. P.

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What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how inadequate I am, if I concentrate on what I can't do and how there's not enough time in which to do it, isn't that what I get every time? And when I think about how powerful I am, and when I think about what I have left to contribute, and when I think about the difference I can make on this planet, then that's what I get. You see, I recognize that it's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it.

- Mitchell, W.

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Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.

- Anthony J. D'Angelo

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You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.

- Twain, Mark

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I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.

- Trump, Donald

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Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

- Connors, Jimmy

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Every man's life lies within the present; for the past is spent and done with, and the future is uncertain.

- Aurelius, Marcus

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Sometimes it seems like God is difficult to find and impossibly far away. We get so caught up in our small daily duties and irritations that they become the only things that we can focus on. What we forget is that God's love and beauty are all around us, every day, if only we would take the time to look up and see them.

- Matthias

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The way to activate the seeds of your creation is by making choices about the results you want to create. When you make a choice, you activate vast human energies and resources, which otherwise go untapped. All too often people fail to focus their choices upon results and therefore their choices are ineffective. If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is compromise.

- Fritz, Robert

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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

- Waitley, Denis

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Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

- Knight, Ray

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Only one thing has to change for us to know happiness in our lives: where we focus our attention.

- Anderson, Greg

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... focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.

- Anderson, Greg

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A well-aimed spear is worth three.

- Williams, Tad

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However it is debased or misinterpreted, love is a redemptive feature. To focus on one individual so that their desires become superior to yours is a very cleansing experience.

- Winterson, Jeanette

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Life in the Fast Lane Playing in Traffic intense stressful challenging overwhelming fulfilling demanding exciting nerve-wrecking entrepreneurial unrelenting empowered exposed: no place to hide flexible confusing results compensation sweatshop team ascendancy ego suppression flat organizations who's my boss no titles no status customer focus self-abnegation decentralized decision making chaos the end of tenure the end of security no complacency fear ongoing change burnout

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It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

- Benson, Taylor

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Courage means to keep working a relationship, to continue seeking solutions to difficult problems, and to stay focused during stressful periods.

- Waitley, Denis

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If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.

- Dixon, Jack

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To solve the problems of today, we must focus on tomorrow.

- Erik Nupponen