SelfGrowth.com: 10 Tips to Develop Concentration & Living a Passionate Life

 [SelfGrowth.com]  Self Improvement Newsletter Improve Your Life Today!  5/23/16 issue: 10 Tips to Develop Concentration & Living a Passionate Life Email for: {EMAIL} * Self Improvement and Personal Growth Weekly Newsletter * Issue #923, Week of May 23-24, 2016 Publisher: David Riklan - [] In this issue: -- Quotes of the Week -- Article: 10 Simple Tips to Develop Concentration - By Syed Hus -- Article: How to Live a Passionate Life of Purpose - By Estra Roell -- Book Review: The Noticer: Sometimes, all a person needs is a little perspective - by Andy Andrews -- How to Advertise in the Self Improvement Newsletter -- How to Subscribe and Unsubscribe from this Newsletter ------------------------------------------------------------ *** Quotes of the Week *** ------------------------------------------------------------ If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes. - Clement of Alexandria, 150-211 To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says: "Leave no stone unturned." - Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1803-1873 Be known for pleasing others, especially if you govern them. Ruling other has one advantage: you can do more good than anyone else. - Baltasar Gracián, 1601-1658 ------------------------------------------------------------ *** ARTICLE: 10 Simple Tips to Develop Concentration - By Syed Hus *** ------------------------------------------------------------ All of us know the importance of concentration skills. Below are some tips to help you develop better concentration whether you are working, studying or doing anything at all! 1. Do one thing at a time, and set aside a specific time period It helps concentration if you just do one thing at a time giving it your complete undivided attention. Multitasking (doing many things simultaneously) will make you distracted and it is an ineffective way of doing things, contrary to what many people believe. Do one thing at a time in order to develop concentration. If you are trying to construct a presentation to give at your office or studying for your exam, for the next 30 minutes or so, just think of that alone. Focus your mind on the details of the job and how you plan to do it. Do not let your attention wander to other things during this time. 2. Do something as if for the first or last time We take a lot of everyday things for granted and do not observe as intently as we should. In order to develop focus and observation, try to look at tasks which you do every day as if you are doing or seeing them for the first or the last time. This will encourage you to observe details which you may have missed before, thus improving your observation, concentration and also allow you to gain new insights. 3. 5 more rule From now on, if you're in the middle of a task and tempted to give up -- just do FIVE MORE. Read FIVE MORE pages. Finish FIVE MORE math problems. Work FIVE MORE minutes. By implementing this strategy, you are stretching your mind past the point of frustration and building up mental endurance just as good athletes push past the point of exhaustion by not giving up when their body initially protests of tiredness. This way they build up the stamina they need to excel. ** To read the full article, [go here.] ------------------------------------------------------------ *** ARTICLE: How to Live a Passionate Life of Purpose - By Estra Roell *** ------------------------------------------------------------ As I was driving down the road with my 16 year old son I noticed him more glum than usual. "What's up?" I ventured. "I just don't know what to do with my life," he replied. "I don't know what I could possibly do to make a living that I would be good at." "You'll spend most of your adult life at work," I advised, "so do something you love."  "I don't know what that is. I don't know what I like to do that I could make a living at." "Well, what I notice is that many times when I come home from work thinking I have groceries I find them missing because you've been cooking for your friends. Every after school job you've had has been in a restaurant and you talked the manager into promoting you from busboy to line cook and you've done really well. Do you think you'd like to be cook?" He brightened and turned to me with an actual smile. "No," he said. "Not a cook. I want to be a chef!" This boy, who had been a rather bored, lackadaisical high school student went on to culinary school and was one of the top students. He received accolades from his instructors, his original dishes always sold out and he even got excited about the papers he had to write. When you are passionate about what you do, everything changes. Studies by the research company Harris Interactive have shown that 80% of working Americans don’t enjoy what they do for a living. The highest incidents of heart attacks and suicides are on Monday mornings. Clearly something is missing in the lives of most people. We all come into this life with a purpose. Each of us has a unique contribution to give to the world and that gift will always be in the form of something we love to do. If you are spending your days out of touch with what you feel most passionate about because you think that's the only way to make a living, you will feel it as stress, boredom, false fatigue, poor health and a general state of unhappiness. How successful do you think you will be under those conditions? Who would you rather do business with or have as an employee--someone who is charged up with enthusiasm for what they are doing or someone who is forcing him or herself through each day? ** To read the full article, [go here.] ------------------------------------------------------------ *** BOOK REVIEW: The Noticer: Sometimes, all a person needs is a little perspective - by Andy Andrews *** ------------------------------------------------------------ Orange Beach, Alabama, is a simple town filled with simple people. But like all humans on the planet, the good folks of Orange Beach have their share of problems—marriages teetering on the brink of divorce, young adults giving up on life, business people on the verge of bankruptcy, as well as the many other obstacles that life seems to dish out to the masses. Fortunately, when things look the darkest, a mysterious man named Jones has a miraculous way of showing up. An elderly man with white hair, of indiscriminate age and race, wearing blue jeans, a white T-shirt and leather flip flops carrying a battered old suitcase, Jones is a unique soul. Communicating what he calls “a little perspective,” he explains that he has been given a gift of noticing things that others miss. “Your time on this earth is a gift to be used wisely,” he says. “Don’t squander your words or your thoughts. Consider even the simplest action you take, for your lives matter beyond measure…and they matter forever.” Jones speaks to that part in everyone that is yearning to understand why things happen and what we can do about it. Like The Traveler’s Gift, The Noticer is a unique narrative blend of fiction, allegory, and inspiration in which gifted storyteller Andy Andrews helps us see how becoming a “noticer” just might change a person’s life forever. ***** The list Price of this book is $15.99. 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