“Make daily focus a habit with a daily ritual.”
We control money by controlling ourselves. “Self-control,” said George Bernard Shaw, “is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.”
We must continually fixate our thoughts on a target throughout life and then trust that everything will take care of itself. It’s knowing that the right plans and actions spring from a focused mind.
So why don’t we focus more? Because we haven’t made it a habit.
We can make focus a daily habit with a daily ritual.
This ritual I find most useful to lock in my daily focus is meditation. It’s a state of deliberate concentration in the morning and night. It’s mental control.
I sit in a sauna in my home. I think of nothing. I seek to avoid “words” or “images” in my mind. I “feel time” for 10 minutes. I sense the passage of time. It is a practice being in the NOW, HERE, THIS.
It’s present-time consciousness.
This daily practice helps to set up a state of mindfulness for the day.
It’s mindfulness practice for the rest of the day. I don’t think I can be mindful during my days without this ritual of mental practice.
And I need to live a life of mindfulness. It is the bedrock of an intentional way of being. Meditation is not an abstract practice. It is practice for the day.
When I’m doing it right, my mind is on the moment. Time slows down, and I seem to be in tune with the day. When I’m doing it wrong, I’m doing nothing to focus my mind. And left without self-control, the mind will tend toward a state of mindlessness.
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