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The cost of not structuring our attention is higher stress, lower productivity, and impaired performance on the most important tasks. In a harrowing example, a study of nearly 1 million surgeries found that if a procedure was performed on the surgeon’s birthday, patients were more likely to die soon thereafter, apparently because the surgeon faced more distractions.
The Secret to Success Is ‘Monotasking’
theatlantic.com
We can experience profound joy if we give ourselves permission to. Instead we look outside ourselves for a perfect situation. And it is the act of looking that takes us away from our happiness.
Radically Condensed Instructions for Being Just as You Are
J Jennifer Matthews
In the practical order, we find our Original Goodness when planted within us:
we can discover and own these three attitudes or virtues deeply
A trust in inner coherence itself. "It all means something!" (Faith)
A trust that this coherence is positive and going somewhere good (Hope)
A trust that this coherence includes me and even defines me (Love)
The Universal Christ
Richard Rohr
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