Be Intentional With Your Focused Attention

Know why you do what you do.

When striving toward any goal, especially higher spiritual aims, it is best to take clear actions that are fully aligned with where you need to go (even if the specific details of your intended outcome are not fully apparent to you yet). And, it is also as equally important that you be mindful of what you need to clear away in order to fully do anything consciously to begin with, as opposed to only automatically taking action based on past conditioning, and so forth.

Keep your energy and attention mindfully and intentionally focused at all times in order to most effectively discern what is worth energizing and what is not: this develops useful discernment.

In order to most effectively pay attention, and to learn from the feedback that you receive from observing yourself with pure awareness, it is best to take intentional and focused steps one moment, and one day, at a time.

This intentional focus and attention develops both necessary skill and mastery, and it moves you in the right direction simultaneously.

Strive to make it so that nothing in your practice is ever done just for the sake of doing it. Strive for intentional and/or inspired action only, since, sometimes, not doing one thing or another is more useful depending on the context…Again, know why you do what you do, so that even if an action is purely inspired, you will know it.