How to find your attention?

At present, attention has become a scarce trait.

Most of the awesome people I admire have one trait: they are very devoted and dedicated when doing things. Dedicated people, both men and women, are sexy. But I recently noticed that I didn't pay enough attention to it at work or at home. It seems that there are many things in my mind at the same time, and I want to deal with many things at the same time, but when I really face one thing, my mind keeps turning its attention to another.

This is really a bad feeling. Of course, no matter how bad the state is, it is good to have self-knowledge. Because I experienced anxiety four years ago, I can accept any bad news calmly. I believe that the four steps of accepting, facing, floating and waiting at that time are still helpful to attention deficit.

I searched some information on the internet and gradually formed a cognition: attention, like muscles, needs careful care and exercise every day.

Let's talk about what stole your attention:

There is no priority in doing things. Whenever I encounter any trivial matters, I immediately reply that I have been checking my mobile phone, trying to do many things at the same time and constantly filling my schedule with more trivial matters. Lack of sleep sometimes conflicts with the present work. The meditation I practiced before has stopped for a long time. Based on the above thinking, I made some changes today, as follows:

In today's to-do list, only four things are listed and sorted according to priority and urgency. In their spare time, they check the completion of the four tasks in the Todo list, instead of easily inserting other events, turn on their computers during meetings, work and discussions, and fully participate in the current discussion. Some discussions are lengthy, but they insist on not doing anything else. Just listening or asking questions. After lunch, arrange a 15 minute nap in the car, and use the power nap App to assist the nap. During the nap, this App will play selected natural sounds, such as the sounds of trees or rivers, reduce the frequency of checking mobile phone text messages, adjust the mentality, reduce entanglement, and devote yourself to the current work. Adding meditation music to your music playlist is a habit change. In addition, what is more important is inner peace.

Keeping inner peace is not a trivial matter in mechanical work, it is the core of work. What can calm you down is advanced technology, and vice versa. Standardization, measuring instruments, quality supervision and final quality inspection are all ways to achieve inner peace. What really matters in the end is to achieve inner peace, and nothing else. Because only with inner peace can we realize the existence of goodness, which transcends romantic and classical cognition and integrates them. No matter what kind of work you do, you must have good quality. If you want to have an appreciation, know how to finish advanced work and experience the feeling of integration with work, you must cultivate inner peace. In this way, good quality can appear in your heart. ..... this happens when we do what we really want to do. It's just that many times, we will still be alienated from work. Excellent technicians don't do this. If he is interested in the work in hand, he will be immersed in the work, and there will be no opposition between subjective and objective. But in the scientific community, it is difficult for people to have this mentality because of the traditional dualist view. Zen advocates meditation, which makes people forget themselves. As far as motorcycle maintenance is concerned, as long as you focus on repairing cars, there will be nothing against me. Once you really put yourself into your work, you can say that your concern is that you have to recognize your work. This is the true meaning of caring. When a person has this sense of identity, he will see the other side of concern-good quality.

These paragraphs are my favorite parts in the book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. It often seems that the surface is inattention, but the essence is that for some reason, things are opposed to me, rather than forgetting things, thus losing inner peace. Without inner peace, attention can be highly concentrated.

The deep-seated solution to the attention deficit lies in the above sentence: truly care about your current job, have a strong sense of identity, and achieve a state of inner peace.

By the way, it is also very important to be careful when sleeping.

Of course, the method of serious concentration can be used in almost every aspect of life, such as serious eating, serious lunch break, serious meeting, serious driving, serious getting along with family, serious writing and serious sleeping … We must practice a kind of concentration, that is, here, here, with this person. The more focused we are, the more determined we are, and the more efficient we are.

May you and I gain more concentration and find inner peace in the process of regaining our attention.

Reference article: The hardest thing in the world turned out to be going to bed on time.

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