Focus on Process
REFLECTIVE NOTES ON THE COMPONENTS LEADING TO MIND MEANDERING, WHICH LIES WITHIN THE INNER CORE OF THE VENN DIAGRAM – “THE MIDDLE BIT”
The key PIVOTALS of my pursuit towards mastery are founded on commitment – order – flow – surrender [to uncertainty and risk]. Three ‘tools of practice’: plan – perform – persist, drive the process.
There exists an inner core, and within its source, MIND MEANDERING. MIND MEANDERING is a system of thinking through mental time travel. This requires undisrupted attention, deep focus, time and energy.
MIND MEANDERING is a slow, complex and quite fragile process. It leads to explorations through which one can make fresh associations and connections with that which is familiar and stored in the mind.
My pursuit of mastery is intrinsic* and deeply immersive occupation. For me, single-tasking greatly assists in travelling into a zone of mindfulness, allowing me to venture deep, and wander undistracted.
It is argued that life begins right at the edge of one’s inner comfort zone, but, with author James Clear [“Atomic Habits”] adopting the neat moniker: “The Goldilocks Rule”: not too easy – not too challenging – just right – [!].
MIND MEANDERING within “The Middle Bit” is integral to my practice.
*my practice is founded on the premise that it is personally meaningful.
I also hold the view that with all deepest meaning, no one is taught.
Little of my own formal education was actually meaningful to me.