Robert Leary

Practicing mindfulness consistently leads to a feeling of potential, of hope, and of looking forward with a fresh pair of eyes.

Focus comes from the mental effort of sharpening your thinking and scaling it down to a single task without letting your mind wander all over the place to things that are not helping you perform that task.

Take a few deep breaths and quiet your mind.

Close your eyes as you begin. Then, as you start to appreciate and focus only on what’s around you, slowly open your eyes.

Look around and take in what you see without forming thoughts around them

The brain likes to know things and form patterns in an effort to predict and make sense of our lives. But we can get wrapped up in this to the point that we miss life as it is happening in the present

Nobody knows the future,

Think of all the fun spontaneous conversations you’ve had at work when you arrive in a good mood, positive, and open to whatever the day will throw at you.

Write down your goal in your journal and write a little bit about what accomplishing that goal might look like for you.

Really make it real in your mind, then write down what you see.