keyword awareness pay attention to what distracts you
Keyword focus keyword awareness pay attention to what distracts you. There is a cost. This cost could be an opportunity cost. Paying attention to one thing keeps you from paying attention to another. Depending what the other thing is you can pay heavy price. Your first mission is to learn what distracted you and what will distract you and what has distracted you. They are not necessarily bad. You need to make a decision if the distraction is worth the lost opportunity.
— from Decisions & Choices (Decision/Choice/Focus/Forethought/Consequences) · Getting to Neutral by Trevor Moawad
In the book
The very first decision, under all the others, is whether to think at all: you are always free to think, to not bother, or to actively avoid it — and choosing to think is the choice that rouses you out of mere reaction. Every moment you spend attending to one thing is an opportunity cost paid against everything else you might have attended to. The mind can hold only one dominant thought at a time, so the real skill is choosing, deliberately, what to put there — and, just as importantly, what to leave out. — Decisions & Choices (Decision/Choice/Focus/Forethought/Consequences)