Is It Hard to Control Yourself Being Part in the Project to Accomplish?

"It's hard to do my task 100% complete. Is this research applicable for all levels of people? I try to complete but I have limit, so the task can be finished in days or weeks"

This statement was uttered by one of my students in critical listening class. On that day, we had group presentation. Each group had to be critical in doing analysis by applying critical listening skill.

There was a group presenting listening audio track with the topic "Focus and Concentration".

"It is the condition when you control yourself from any barriers surrounding you so that such condition isn't able to bother you", said the presenter. This is an interesting topic which is daily experienced by students. Then, students are attracted to participate in.

In the development of age, environment influences you to reach high quality focus. Since industrial era, movements happen around us - people, goods, noises, even pollutions. It affects us to consider aspects which are more various than the previous ages. It is continuously shown on machine usage and information.

Data transfer is useful for directly delivering information or keeping touch. However, human has consciousness to respond anything related to experiences (e.g the person you know, the material you need for job, and so on). This consciousness is actually good, even we need it. Unfortunately, such issues attract you to respond in hurry. Imagine, while doing something, which one will you respond first: a neighbor or your father calling you? A brochure or the package from your relative living in suburb?  Being focus becomes so much precious right now.

Huge World can't Grant More Spaces

Human now really needs "space". Our spaces are actually codified by socio-cultural context. Bakhtin, who contributes in the development of literacy studies, has "becoming environment" concept to refer contextual states such as school, family, office, etc. Your existential is better to consider such environment to do related task, it is able to help you catching focus. What will you do with the stack of document on your booth, appointment noted by your secretary for next week, and assignment on your bag after you've been home? This "becoming environment" helps you to stimulate your consciousness for making them done soon.

The debate started to gain with the statement uttered as you have read in the beginning of this article.

To respond, her friend said,

"Nobody is perfect. God refers human as perfect creature among others. Yes, among those creatures only. However, the nature of God's creature makes us remain imperfect than Almighty. Your concentration may be affected by your expectation. The perfectness of us shows on how we manage our imperfectness."

As he said such argument, all students clapped their hands.

Encouraging Self-Capacity

God has given His Blessings for us. Then, we are asked to do wholeheartedly.

To reply the student’s opinion, I added, staying with the task 100% complete cannot be meant literally. You have mind, sense, and body to work on your tasks. So, you are the completeness. 100% complete means you encourage yourself to fully do your task with the best you have. In fact, we still encounter time and energy to accomplish our to-do list. It doesn't matter. As long as you have provide yourself fully, concentration has included with focus.

Another thing is your target. It remains important to decide the target when your project should be done.

"There are three aspects to get you into success. They are doing well, mastery, and self-control", the presenter uttered the conclusion. 

The Philosophy of Illness

Among the days of your life, have you ever felt that illness makes you bothered? You work hard for giving the best for your parents' anniversary, toys for your child, tuition for your study, or special stuff you want to have for years; unfortunately, your body doesn't feel that fit to cooperate. You feel uncomfortable, afraid, and disappointed.

Several people think about their illnesses, and taking care of their body to cure, but mostly are not able to make sense of their illnesses. It's like a modern medical philosophy concerns on disease healing. By taking medication, your disease is hoped to be cured and recovered then. It may be OK for you, but it isn't for your body!

Indeed, being healthy is required for experiencing our lives. In other hand, we are not talking such limited purpose. We are talking about entire of body including your physical and soul. Imagine a machine that's been unstable. Then, you fix and finally use it again. You have never thought that its performance continually decreases along with its use, until 5 years it is possibly changed.

Chinese medication has different point of view. It considers your energy balance consisting "Yin" and "Yang". Yin is quiet and passive while Yang is active. Chinese medication philosophy believes that your illness is caused by the imbalance of your energy. Too much Yin makes you sick. You should keep your energy equal to keep you healthy.

Something Exists Because It Has Reason To Happen

Let's see on different perspective. Everything in our lives has causal relationship.

When your body gets sick, think what you've done. It's highly possible that you have done many things, right? I felt this. My head was hurt and fever. I thought I would miss things to do in that week. Until my doctor wrote permission for taking rest to the office I work, I realized.

I realized that my body needed break. In silence, I was  conscious there had been documents handled, research done, and workshop participated. I felt grateful.

After my doctor released the letter of permission to allow me having bed rest for several days, my body needs to heal its energy. All day long, I laid on my bed until the night came, my body had been healed.

It is the natural reason, why we need illness, sometimes. Your body has limit, it knows the condition when the time you need break after your high physical or thinking activities. What will happen if your body doesn't have limit? You don't know you have been exhausted. Like a bulb, when the string is expired, it is suddenly broken off.

So, it doesn't matter you get illness. It is the time to recover your body become well. My doctor ever said to me when I was a child,

"It's OK that sometimes you don't feel quite fit, even sick. It will prevent you from being arrogant - like pharaohs considered themselves as gods because they didn't ever feel they were sick. In fact, they had been, so much deep in their bodies."