Simple and focused is beautiful

Focus

• I do 1st things first. I focus my efforts on the rewarding 20%.
• I focus! I know what my one goal is.
• Simplicity. What cannot be left out? What are the three most important? I do the vital 20%.
• Be a minimalist. Only retain what you need and use regularly. Reduce clutter. Let only the fittest survive. Travel light. Keep it down to the essentials.

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Simple is beautiful

• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.” Hans Hofmann
• Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity. Plato
• Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple. C.W.Ceram
• An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. Hoshang N. Akhtar
• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity. Charles Mingu
• Out of intense complexities intense simplicities arise. Winston Churchill
• The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers. Henri Frederic Amiel
• Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy. Richard Halloway

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Simplify!

• The simplest things are often the truest. Richard Bach
• Simplicity means knowing what can't be left out. Paul von Ringelheim
• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Hans Hofmann
• Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein
• An eye for small things leaves big things undone. Confucius
• Never use two words when one will do. Thomas Jefferson
• One of the great maladies of our time is the way sophistication seems to be valued above common sense. Norman Cousins
• Our life is frittered away by detail... Simplify, simplify, simplify! ... Simplicity of life and elevation of purpose. Henry David Thoreau
• When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it. Jacob Lawrence
• Eliminate physical clutter. More importantly, eliminate spiritual clutter. D.H. Mondfleur
• Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated. Confucius
• The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non- essentials. Lin Yutang
• "Think simple" as my old master used to say - meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles. Frank Lloyd Wright
• It is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all. Laura Ingalls Wilder
• Simplicity is indeed often the sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Mahlon Hoagland
• Simplicity is the nature of great souls. Papa Ramadas
• Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo DaVinci
• In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. Tao Te Ching
• A key tenet of the Zen aesthetic is kanso or simplicity. In the kanso concept beauty, grace, and visual elegance are achieved by elimination and omission.
• Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means. Dr. Koichi Kawana

Love is at my core

• I am Love.  Life is about making love.  To everything. Love is the point of it all.  Love is the energy of which I am made.  It is the energy that holds me together. Love is my experience of Self when I see everyone as part of me.  It is unity expressed.  We are all part of God.  I love you = "the god in me sees the god in you."   N. D. Walsch
• Least effort is expended when my motivations are motivated by love, because nature is held together by love.  When my actions are motivated by love, my energy multiplies and accumulates. Attention to my ego -  when I seek power and control over others or seek approval from others - consumes the greatest amount of energy.  When my internal reference point is my spirit, when I am immune from criticism and unafraid of any challenge, I harness the power of love.   Deepak Chopra
• My internal reference point is my spirit which is love. In object referral, we are seeking approval of others and need to control things.  Our behaviour is in anticipation of a response, therefore fear based.  Ego based power lasts only as long as the object of reference is there.  As soon as the money, power, title, job goes away, so does the power.  In self referral, my self is immune to criticism, unfearful of a challenge, feels beneath no- one, yet feels superior to no- one because it recognises that everyone is the same spirit.   Deepak Chopra
• Fear is the energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, runs, hides, hoards, harms. Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, stays, reveals, shares, heals.  Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked.  Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear.  Fear grasps, love lets go.  Fear rankles, love soothes.  Fear attacks, love ammends.  Every human thought ,word or deed is based in one emotion or the other.  You have no choice about this, because there is nothing else to choose.  But you have free choice about which of these to select.   N. D. Walsch