[I]ncreased choice among goods and services may contribute little or nothing to the kind of freedom that counts. ...[I]t may impair freedom by taking time and energy we'd be better off devoting to other matters.

First, when you focus only on what your work offers you, it makes you hyperaware of what you don’t like about it, leading to chronic unhappiness.

When you focus on what you lack, you lose what you have. When you focus on what you have, you get what you lack.

Limiting your options now will expand your opportunities in the long run because you can remain focused enough to master something.

Keeping your options open now will reduce your opportunities in the long run because you divide your attention and end up doing an average job on seven different things.

Are you falling into the pattern of always mastering one thing or always chasing the next thing?

If you focus on what you lack, you lose what you have. If you focus on what you have, you gain what you lack.

If you focus on what you lack, you lose what you have. If you focus on what you have, you gain what you lack.

When people are in a focused state, the words “I can’t,” “I’ll try,” “I’ll do it tomorrow,” and “maybe” get forced out of their vocabularies.

Doing the wrong new things, things that usurp what God calls us to do, is dangerous. Focus tends to let it breathe. Lack of focus generally suffocates it.

Focused on our good, focused on our abundance we naturally attract more of the same. This is spiritual law. Our consciousness is creative. What we focus on, we empower and enlarge. Good multiplies when focused upon. Negativity multiplies when focused upon. The choice is ours: Which do we want more of?

Remember: When you focus on what you lack, you lose what you have. When you focus on what you have, you get what you lack.

People think focus means saying yes to the thing you've got to focus on, but that's not what it means at all. It means saying no to the one hundred other good ideas there are. You have to pick carefully

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you.

If you focus your awareness only upon your own rightness, then you invite the forces of opposition to overwhelm you. This is a common error. Even I, your teacher, have made it.

Do you tend to focus more on what you can control or what you can’t control?