The Power of Focus: 2. Exercises and Plans To Execute

Since this was a very big and rich book, and because there were two different aspects of it that interested me and I started writing about them; I divided the full into two separate ones. The first was about the inspirational quotes I liked in the book, and the second (the one at hand), is about the exercises, checklists and plans to perform an do to achieve that this book is all about. This is like a gathered summary as a guideline to get more focused.

We start with the Successful Habits Formula:

The Power of Focus: 1. Inspirational and Motivational Quotes

So the new self development - or life skills or whatever you call it - book on my currently-reading shelf is the Power of Focus for Jack Canfield.

From the first chapter reading, it all sound very familiar to me, things I've already read in the How to Control Your Mind at Will, but not in that scientific way as the latter. It's got a lot of nice quotes summarizing the main points of it in a very concentrated and to the point way, making it easy to memorize and understand.

Here are some some of the main points and the quotes that I liked:

The Life of Abraham Lincoln

So I got the new Lincoln movie (not new as I speak of course, but I recently got it to watch it at home), and before watching it, I decided that I should read his biography first so I'd have a more rich background and understanding of events when I watch the movie.

The book I got as a first result of my search was "The life of Abraham Lincoln by Henry Ketcham" and I know it will take me so long to finish since I don't read it everyday; only when they're gracious enough to leave me the iPad to read :/. The reviews are very positive so far; the writer was coeval with Lincoln and had the privilege of meeting him once as the reviews say; which accounts him as being the most contemporary writer and the most accurate.

From what I read, I really like Lincoln; physically he was a large, tall man which helped him when was young in carrying out a lot of different jobs, but his character and personality are what matter and they really sound so noble and rare to find, especially these days.

How To Control Your Mind At Will? Highlights and Exercises.

One of the books (3 books to be exact) that I'm simultaneously reading nowadays is "How to control your mind at will". It's a kind of psychologically-based book that describes in a simple way how the brain functions from the "energy" point of view and states that there is the conscious and unconscious states of the mind and the linkage between them is the cerebral control, and that's what marks normal people from those suffering from lack of cerebral control, i.e., when the unconscious mind take over, the person has lost their cerebral control over their minds. It also shows how the latter are affected in their lives by this lack of control which are translated into fears, anxiety, phobias, insomnia and can sometimes affect them physically with organic pain attacks - or even chronic ones - that do not have any apparent physical cause.

I don't consider it something to go by blindly; after all, none has scientific prove of it, just theories and all depends on the brains; however, it mentions that people with uncontrolled brains or passive ones, need to have their own religious beliefs in order to get better and one of the factors or losing control over the mind is actually losing those beliefs and faith, which kind of make sense.

Anyway, here's a summary of what I've read in that book that I see a bit valuable. I copy/paste the important parts, but with some minor alterations to avoid those awkward starts or ends.