When you can focus your mind, you enjoy life more. The reason is very simple. With a focused mind, you can ignore irrelevant and meaningless thoughts and immerse yourself in your actions.
What happens when your mind is not focused? Thoughts constantly pass through your mind, attracting your attention and not allowing you to fix your mind on what you are doing.
If you do one thing and at the same time do something else, your attention is somewhere else, and you miss the joy of what you are doing.
When you eat a delicious meal, do you enjoy the meal and relish the food if your mind is elsewhere? No, you do not! You eat without being conscious of what you are eating.
The same thing occurs when you eat, and at the same time, you read the newspaper or watch TV.
Next time you eat, try to focus on the food, its smell, and its taste.
You Need Focus if You Wish to Enjoy Life
- If you cannot control your attention and allow it to follow your thoughts, worries, or problems, you miss the joy of traveling, swimming, talking with friends, or driving your car.
- You miss the joy of the small things of life if your mind is always away and you do everything absentmindedly.
In this age of the smartphone and social networks, the lack of ability to focus is growing and is becoming more acute. People are not here. The attention is absent, and there is no focus.
People who enjoy life and use their skills and talents to progress in life can control their attention and focus their minds on what they are doing.
Anyone who strives to improve their focus takes a big step forward in life and accomplishes better and greater things. Such people focus on what they are doing, on their work, on accomplishing goals, and on enjoying life.
When you focus on your actions, you carry out what you are doing more efficiently and with fewer mistakes, and you enjoy what you are doing.
Carry out a Boring Task with Attention and Focused Mind
Next time you need to do some tedious task, try to carry it out with full attention and a focused mind.
What would happen? If you can focus on the task, boredom and the inner resistance to carry out this task will disappear. The time would pass more quickly, and you would even enjoy what you are doing.
When you need to carry out some chore or task you dislike, you think about the discomfort it is causing you and the other things you could have done instead. This increases the feeling of discomfort, stress, and lack of happiness.
However, if you focus your attention on the task, even if you do not like it, you do not allow all these thoughts to arise and occupy your mind.
Focus on Your Actions, and You Will Enjoy What You Are Doing
When watching a movie while letting worries arise, do you enjoy the movie?
When walking on the beach and being busy texting or reading messages at the same time, you do not enjoy the breeze, the sunset, or the view.
To enjoy life, you need to be present, not only physically but also mentally. Your mind has to be here, not somewhere else.
- When traveling, focus on your surroundings, and you will enjoy your trip.
- When talking with people, focus on the conversation and do not think of other things or use your phone.
- While fixing something at home, focus on what you are doing.
- When cooking, focus on the act of cooking.
- While eating, focus on the food and enjoy what you are eating.
- When working out, be fully and present.
Pay Attention to Your Actions
Increasing your focus and training your mind to focus might seem to you like a difficult and boring thing to do, but it is not so at all.
If you strive to devote even just a few minutes a day to improve your focus, you will gain the ability to focus on your actions, do them more efficiently, and at the same time enjoy what you are doing.
When you do something that requires your attention, try to direct all your attention to what you are doing.
Being here, being present, and directing your full attention to the task or action makes you enjoy whatever you do.
Focusing on your actions can make a tedious task more interesting, and the time passes more quickly and pleasurably.
Focusing on your actions can make every task and action more efficient, interesting, and pleasant to do.
You will improve your life when you learn to focus on your actions. To do so, you need to train your mind and attention. You can find simple steps and exercises that are easy to practice in the book “Focus Your Attention”.
