“Back to basics” may sound boring, but basics can be the most powerful place on which to focus. Our lives can feel incredibly complicated – so much so that, from time to time, we have lost sight of the dynamics that underlie the results that we wish to have.
Basics like: do your homework, take care of yourself, treat people well, take personal responsibility, keep your word.
I was recently inspired to focus more on my meditation practice because of a conversation with someone whom I learned actually taught meditation – which was very different than the profession where I had known him. His example of meditation as a “basic” taught me a lot.
What basics would benefit from your attention at this point in the year? If you could think of only one “basic” on which to focus, what would the most important “basic” be? What kind of result would you expect to receive from focusing on it? What can you learn from the example of others?