Tag: focus

What it means to be have the warrior spirit

Carl Setzer

A warrior isn’t somebody who doesn’t get knocked down. It’s somebody who doesn’t stay knocked down

My focus

Carl Setzer

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Thoughts on Effectiveness and Hope 

Carl Setzer

I’ve long been a devote of Steven Covey. To this day, I try to keep his principles in mind. 

One of the central elements is the importance: urgency grid. 

The upper right grid is the key place: but urgent and important. Urgent and important grab priority, followed by urgent and not important. Not important and not urgent tend to grab our time, too. The realm of time wasting. 

Many people cycle between the urgents and time wasting. The not urgent important gets neglected. 

That’s the realm of Hope. This painful cycle minimizes hope; it doesn’t get fed. 

No wonder we swirl about in anger so much. Why we focus on win-lose, why we’re so afraid. 

We never feed hope. 

A Monday Haiku 

Carl Setzer

​Monday brings so much 

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A meditation about discipline 

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Discipline is not 

Deprivation: a lament

Rather, focusing 

Focus

Carl Setzer

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Distraction, empty;
“Now”, the moment powerful.
Rain flows from branches