How To Control Your Thoughts

Hi, this is Dowski with that question and answer program. Anonymous asks, "It's only when I dabbbit in the morning that all my thoughts come flooding into my mind of things to do or forget to do." Of course, when I finish dabbing, I forget all these thoughts. Although some of them may be important, how do I control these thoughts while praying? I imagine my thoughts are a tape recorder and when I tell them to stop, it works until the next thought comes. Any other advice? Thank you. Yeah. Um it's a very simple explanation for this because part of ma is called his bodus which means you need time by yourself to stop and think. And we live in a world where between the emails and the Instagrams and the WhatsApps and the phone calls and all the things that are vying for our attention. We very seldom get a quiet time. The only quiet time in our day is [laughter] we're standing there. We have nothing to do. We know we're supposed to be dabbing. Suddenly there's that quiet moment and I said h I remember this I remember that I take this I take care of that and take care of everything like that. So one thing is give yourself a quiet time away from everybody away from everything and think what do I need to do? Make yourself a list. Write everything down. Organize your thoughts. Very interesting. Steven Kobe in the seven habits of highly effective people. The seventh habit is called sharpening the saw. And he says, "What does that mean?" He says, "People are cutting down trees." And after a while, the saw is getting dull. And one of them says, "We have to sharpen the saw." And he says, "No, it'll slow us down." But the time you take to sharpen the saw will make everything else more effective. The time you spend organizing your day Don't wait for take some time out during your day and think, "What do I need to do?" Look at all of your projects. Make a list. Make a schedule. Write it down. The more you do, the more it'll help you organize your thoughts. Now, it's mice sultan. No question. If in the middle of thoughts come to you. They say about the vaguan that while he was dvening an enormous amount of of suddenly popped into his head and he daved that they should go away that he should forget them so that he could concentrate on his daving. But that's my sultan. There's no question about it that the sultan wants to stop you from concentrating in your dening and you'll think about everything else in the world. And you have to remember that your mind is a muscle and you can train it to do what you want it to do. You do not have to just sit back and let things happen.