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“To be fully engaged, we must be physically energized, emotionally connected, mentally focused and spiritually aligned with a purpose beyond our immediate self-interest.”
― The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
― The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
“The more exacting the challenge, the more rigorous our rituals need to be.”
― The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
― The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
“If you are interested in something, you will focus on it, and if you focus attention on anything, it is likely that you will become interested in it. Many of the things we find interesting are not so by nature, but because we took the trouble of paying attention to them.”
― Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
― Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
“Rituals also help us to create structure in our lives.”
― The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
― The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
“If one has failed to develop curiosity and interest in the early years, it is a good idea to acquire them now, before it is too late to improve the quality of life.
To do so is fairly easy in principle, but more difficult in practice. Yet it is sure worth trying. The first step is to develop the habit of doing whatever needs to be done with concentrated attention, with skill rather than inertia. Even the most routine tasks, like washing dishes, dressing, or mowing the lawn become more rewarding if we approach them with the care it would take to make a work of art. The next step is to transfer some psychic energy each day from tasks that we don’t like doing, or from passive leisure, into something we never did before, or something we enjoy doing but don’t do often enough because it seems too much trouble. There are literally millions of potentially interesting things in the world to see, to do, to learn about. But they don’t become actually interesting until we devote attention to them.”
― Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
To do so is fairly easy in principle, but more difficult in practice. Yet it is sure worth trying. The first step is to develop the habit of doing whatever needs to be done with concentrated attention, with skill rather than inertia. Even the most routine tasks, like washing dishes, dressing, or mowing the lawn become more rewarding if we approach them with the care it would take to make a work of art. The next step is to transfer some psychic energy each day from tasks that we don’t like doing, or from passive leisure, into something we never did before, or something we enjoy doing but don’t do often enough because it seems too much trouble. There are literally millions of potentially interesting things in the world to see, to do, to learn about. But they don’t become actually interesting until we devote attention to them.”
― Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life
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