Organize Your Thoughts, Day 5 Your Focused Mind
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2021
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
"The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world."
~ Neuroscientist, Dr. Daniel J. Levitin
Are you finding it hard to focus these days? If so, you're not alone. As we endure the ongoing pandemic, our lives require more focused thought in order to keep abreast of how to stay safe. This week, you'll be guided using meditation techniques to help you focus your mind on what matters most. We'll be following along with the book, "The Organized Mind," by neuroscientist, Dr. Daniel J. Levitin.
This is day 5 of a 7-day meditation series, The Focused Mind, episodes 2376-2382.
YOUR WEEKLY CHALLENGE
Good Enough Quest
Begin to notice the time you waste on decisions that don't matter. Allow unimportant things in your life to be good enough. Spend your best time and energy on what matters most.
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 2,380 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Mary Mechley, and welcome to day five of our series. |
| 0:12.4 | We're exploring this week. |
| 0:14.8 | This week we are exploring the theme of a focused mind. |
| 0:23.2 | You might be feeling as though you haven't felt very focused, especially since the pandemic |
| 0:30.2 | hit. |
| 0:31.2 | Well, in this week's series, you are going to be guided using meditation techniques |
| 0:40.2 | and insight to help you focus your mind, and we're following along with the book by the |
| 0:48.2 | author, Daniel Levitan, called the organized mind, how to organize your mind in a way |
| 0:57.1 | to help you focus better. |
| 1:00.7 | Throughout this series, you have had a challenge. |
| 1:06.0 | It's a good enough quest, going on a quest to let certain things be good enough. |
| 1:14.1 | These are things that are not critical to anything, such as what dry cleaner you use, |
| 1:21.7 | or what you're going to have for dinner tonight. |
| 1:25.5 | Do what needs to happen to the best of your ability, and then have it be good enough, |
| 1:31.6 | so that you're able to focus on what matters most. |
| 1:37.3 | In today's episode, you're going to be guided to provide you mental clarity, and I want |
| 1:46.4 | to share a tip with you from the organized mind that has to do with how you index your |
| 1:56.1 | thoughts. |
| 1:57.9 | There are so many apps and notebooks and planners on how to organize your thoughts. |
| 2:05.8 | Well, one of the best ways, according to extensive research, is by keeping track of important |
| 2:17.3 | thoughts and tasks that you need to do and goals on index cards, plain simple three by five |
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