Focus on each task with intensity as if it were a work of art.
Concentration is a state of mind mastery where one can take a task or a moment and be immersed and involved in it without distraction. Concentration does not ignore others; rather, it is intense focus to achieve solutions, ideas, and finished products in the midst of daily life. Concentration is vital for our work, projects, aspirations, and the growth of our own souls.
Turn your phone off and or tablet/computer for 1 hour while doing a task to avoid distraction and to fully invest yourself.
Commit to one day of technology free (phone, radio, television, computer, tablet) living in order to concentrate on spiritual, home, or other matters/tasks.
Find something you have been avoiding doing and see it through to completion. Be fully engaged with whatever this is in all manner of detail
Meditation
Daily Questions
Are you able to focus on your Creator daily in such a way that prayer is effortless? If not, why?
Are you easily distracted? Or do you ignore others when you are doing something that seems important to you? Where is your balance of concentration?
Do you focus your mind energy to complete a task, or are you easily distracted and take long periods of time to complete something?
Do you strive to finish things and finish them well for the sake of Heaven?
Are you able to create long-term goals and stick to them, or do you give up easily when there are obstacles?
Do you make time for meditation? If not, is it because you have difficulty concentrating?
Are you able to concentrate on what is around you and see more deeply into matters? Are you involved in superficial tasks and reading so that you never reach deeper levels of understanding?
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Quotables
And how can you achieve such concentration? By recognizing that everything you do is important to God, and is one vital piece of the larger picture of your life. — Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart. — Patanjali
Discipline and concentration are a matter of being interested. — Tom Kite
By practicing concentration the mind can be made stable. A stable mind helps in taking right decisions and achieving the desired result. — Rig Veda
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, ‘Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.’— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal. — E. Joseph Cossman
All the Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas, layin’ in the sun talkin’ ‘bout the things they Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done… But all those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas all ran away and hid from One Little Did. — Shel Silverstein