A good friend of mine once pointed out that the middle of the technique is the beautiful part and what produces the quality of the outcome, so placing one's attention on the outcome and ignoring the beautiful center is counter productive. The lower quality of the work done in the middle of the technique produces poorer quality results at the end, no matter how hard you reach for the end result you want.
How true is this for every day life? Looking forward and trying to figure out how to make the future work, fretting over financial commitments or simply mulling over what if scenarios takes one's attention away from the now, and results in stress. For if one is here but one is constantly thinking about over there, there is inevitably a pulling apart, a stressing of the material and the result is a lower quality now which will produce future lower quality 'now's.
The centre is where it is all at, on the mats or in your home or job. Focus on your immediate nowness and centre.
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