Peach lace
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Clean, crisp focus starts another week, and the last one of the summer, unofficially.

What one thing can you do this week to tighten your focus and pop over the top of some challenge you’re trying to address? Or is there a way in which you’d like to reduce the stress – or boredom – of your work?

As idea triggers for what that one thing might be, for you, this week:

- What is the one thing you’re avoiding doing? Step right up and take focused action, right there. Our son’s third grade teacher used to say, "Eat your peas first. THEN eat your dessert." That plan? Not always fun, of course, but it works.

- What is the one thing you try harder and harder to do? You could experiment and "try easier" instead, for just this week.

- What do you do so easily you could almost do it in your sleep? Take a "beginner’s mind" look at that task. As familiar as you are with it, you may find your practice is no longer fresh. There may be a simpler, cleaner, or more innovative way (which might be more fun, if that would help) to do that job now.

Remember, we’re not talking radical change here.

Just clean, crisp focus on one thing for this last week of the summer – that’s all.