Where your attention goes, so goes your life
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Where your attention goes, so goes your life

Where your attention goes, so goes your life

Where your attention goes, so goes your life

Where your attention goes, so goes your life

 

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hat you keep your attention on flourishes. And keeping your attention focused on what you want takes conscious effort.

Have you ever noticed how easy it is to allow a garden to become overgrown with weeds? It does that without any effort on your part. The vegetables, fruits, flowers, and trees start to do poorly when you don’t water them, stop giving them nutrients, or allow bugs and gophers to chomp on them.

Indulging habits and unconsciousness is a lot like allowing a garden to fall apart.

However, when you focus on what supports the garden, what takes care of the plants and what allows them to flourish, that’s what embracing effective practices and bringing mindful, conscious, compassionate attention to your life produces for you.

It’s not that doing these things makes you a good person and not doing them makes you a bad person.

It’s just that you get different results by doing them versus not doing them.

Where is your attention? Where would you like it to be?

What do you want to flourish?

Now put your attention there.

In lovingkindness,


If you enjoyed this article, you can find a version of it in my book, Living the Zen Life: Practicing Conscious, Compassionate Awareness (Volume One).

If you enjoyed this article, you can find a version of it in my book, Living the Zen Life: Practicing Conscious, Compassionate Awareness (Volume Two).

If you enjoyed this article, you can find a version of it in my book, Living the Zen Life: Practicing Conscious, Compassionate Awareness (Volume Three).

If you enjoyed this article, you can find a version of it in my book, A Shift to Love: Zen Stories and Lessons by Alex Mill.

If you enjoyed this article, you can find a version of it in my book, Meditation and Reinventing Yourself.

If you enjoyed this article, you can find a version of it in my book, The Zen Life: Spiritual Training for Modern Times.

 


  Alex Mill trained in a Zen Buddhist monastery for nearly 14 years. He now offers his extensive experience to transform people’s lives and businesses through timeless Zen principles.

He is the creator of three powerful 30-day programs, Heart-to-Heart: Compassionate Self-Mentoring, Help Yourself to Change, and Your Practice, as well as the online Zen meditation workshop, Taming Your Inner Noise (now offered as The FREE Zen Workshop).

Alex has also written seven books on Zen awareness practice. The latest are entitled A Shift to Love: Zen Stories and Lessons (Get it for FREE here) and the 3-book series Living the Zen Life: Practicing Conscious, Compassionate Awareness.

He is a full-time Zen Life Coach who offers guidance and life-changing support to his private clients worldwide. Book a call.