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ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

"Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived."

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

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We become good at what we practice and most of us are experts at practicing distraction. We live in a society that trains us to multi-task and jump from one thing to another in an uncontrolled way. The great panacea for a world plagued by distraction is learning and practicing the art of concentration.

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