Keeping our mind still and in one place.
Doesn't sound too difficult does it? Try sitting alone in a room by yourself with nothing else but your thoughts.
Observe those thoughts (non-judgmentally) and recognize just how wandering your thoughts can be.
Why is this important? Well in today's Internet, Facebook, Twitter, Email and RSS Feed world, we have subconsciously conditioned ourselves to be distracted.
By engaging in this ongoing distraction or constant thought interruption we are subconsciously forming habits.
This "distraction habit" has been formed over the course of years and result's in creating difficulty to focus on any given task for any extended period of time which then makes it additionally challenging to be productive.
Wikipedia defines Meditation as any form of a family of practices in which practitioners train their minds or self-induce a mode of consciousness to realize some benefit.
I may give mediation a try with the desired out come of increased focus (seems like a worthy habit to create)... That is if I can keep my self from being distracted =)
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