The Art of Focus: Find Meaning, Reinvent Yourself and Create Your Ideal Future

“There doesn’t seem to be a more worthwhile endeavor to dedicate your life to than to see what you are capable of.”

“If you don’t know what you want, you will be told what you want, and you will believe it. If you don’t create a purpose, you will be assigned one. If you don’t create a career, you will be assigned one. If you don’t create a hierarchy of goals to invest your mental energy in, you will be assigned one, like climbing a corporate, religious, or status ladder just to realize you’ve wasted 80% of your life.”

“The future of work will not be work. It will be play. The human psyche is wired for survival. Entrepreneurship is modern-day survival. But most people have a twisted view of entrepreneurship. It’s not about starting the next billion-dollar company. It’s about leveraging your stack of skills, unique story, and finite focus to create a life of meaning. Everyone is an entrepreneur. Some just get paid for the value they cultivate outside of the conditioned path.”

“Collective mental energy is what creates modern power. From the bottom up, key pillars of the external world’s structure are fueled by unconscious attention, intention, and will.”

“Nothing is more important than your potential. Not your phone, not the TV, not anything that is begging to stimulate your brain’s reward system right now.”

“If you haven’t developed yourself in any capacity, your current purpose, and the ones following, will increase in meaning as you solve your own problems. Start with what’s right in front of you. Are you overweight and sluggish? Do you hate your job? Are you dealing with relationship issues? Is your mind a storm of negative thoughts and emotions? You must confront what’s causing the most pain in your life, dance with that pain, and create a plan to solve the problem. When you solve that problem, not only will you build momentum into the next, but your other problems will become easier to solve. This is not a linear process. Your problems are a tight-knit web that bind you to your current situation. Problems don’t exist on their own.”

“With time, you will realize that selfishness and selflessness are two polar ends. They cannot be separated like oil and water. They are constantly mixing according to the situation at hand.”

“The highest-paid individuals are the visionaries, strategists, and creative problem solvers of the world. Your vision is greater than yourself. It gives you a soft direction to focus the goals and actions that stem from it. Your vision should be big, not limited by belief, and emotionally compelling when you marinate your mind in the growing detail.”

“Roads are a system for efficient transportation. These roads have evolved and become more efficient as problems revealed themselves.”

“A system is a group of components that work together to achieve a common goal.”

“I will”

“What’s worse is how they can condition a population to think in black and white, when the magic happens in the gray, the unknown.”