Mindfulness not only shapes your identity, it gives your life vastly superior meaning and purpose. With greater mindfulness you come to realize that you're the master of your fate and this enables you to take responsibility for working towards your goals.
What are some of the key aspects of mindfulness? Some of these aspects may include, but are not limited to...
Awareness: when it comes to building mindfulness, awareness plays a central role. There are an infinite number of questions you can ask yourself to connect with greater awareness. Questions like, are you aware of your thoughts? Are you aware of how your behavior is shaped by your thoughts? Are you aware of how you relate to context? How do you communicate in your relationships? Are you open to listening, understanding new perspectives and engaging authentically? Do you use your communication to meet needs and grow relationships? These are just some of the areas where increased awareness can influence your outcomes and bring you closer to your goals.
Focus: focus is slightly more refined than awareness. Focus allows for a honing in on your goals with more intensity and accuracy. Say for example you're looking to develop a skill such as playing the saxophone. To really advance in this skill as quickly as possible would require a relaxed focus and presence while playing the instrument. This would enable you to understand more fully which areas you need to focus on to correct mistakes and give your work more fluidity. Although focus creates tension, with relaxed focus, it should be a healthy tension - one where you're at your resilient edge of resistance.
Attention: while similar to focus, attention is slightly more fluid and open in that it allows you to connect with your passions, your skills and your talents. So ask yourself, where is your vision taking you and how can you align your attention in the direction of your goals? Growing up someone may have a passion for football. But to develop this passion into a professional skill would require coming to grips with attention. Without relevant attention you're merely a vessel adrift on a vast open sea, with little direction to channel your focus. Attention enables you to connect with your vision, apply yourself to set and meet relevant goals, thereby giving your life greater meaning and purpose.
To become super successful in your chosen field, employ these powers of mindfulness to shuttle you at faster speeds to greater heights of success than ever before.
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