Sentences with phrase «conscious effort not»

It's amazing how much more active you can become simply by making a conscious effort not to sit still.

Productive employees will have certain techniques which help them to focus, whether it's working in 90 - minute blocks, focusing on one task at a time, and making a conscious effort not to get distracted by office chatter.

We are making a studied conscious effort not to be studied or conscious.

There's a lack of viciousness in Splatoon that feels especially refreshing, a conscious effort not only to encourage fun, but to discourage animosity.

You don't have to send the most creative and exciting messages on the planet, but you at least need to show a conscious effort not to be boring.

For over a year we've made a conscious effort not to target ourselves against industry averages and benchmarks.

But on holidays I make a conscious effort not to bring my work wardrobe with me:).

Since it's so easy to make I have to make a conscious effort not to bake it every day, lol.

So I made a conscious effort not to tell myself I was on a diet; instead I was making an effort to eat more fruits and vegetables that I have always struggled to eat enough of.

Moderate expenditure as well as a conscious effort not to borrow from the Central Bank, among other things, culminated in these gains recorded over the past couple of months.

I made a conscious effort NOT to like those, and today I can say that my fondness for them has left me.

I had been taught by my parents to be honest, and I always make a conscious effort not to separate one part of my life from another.»

Not exact matches

But make no mistake, innovation needs exploration and, if you don't make a conscious effort to widen your boundaries, it will limit your ability to compete long term.

Sometimes these habits form naturally, but they are more often than not the result of conscious effort.

Even when we're not looking at our phones, and we've made a conscious effort to ignore them, such as turning off notifications and ringers or powering them off entirely, they still can distract us.

Telling quote: «I think what we made the mistake of doing early on was taking every opportunity alone to talk about the business, at dinner, driving the car, you know at home brushing your teeth, as you're getting into bed, as you're waking up, and I think we made a conscious effort to not do that because I think it was just, you know, it would burn us out,» Kate told CNN in 2002.

The CEOs put the company in a place where they were attractive to an acquirer and that was a conscious, strategic effort, not an accident.

However, the use of these standards and the exchange of intelligence often is still very much a conscious effort and not yet a default modus operandi — like recycling, a practice that was once ignored and then slowly adopted, is now commonplace and assumed.

So it takes a conscious effort to not feel completely natural behaving this way.

But little by little, day by day, imperceptibly, without conscious effort on our part, our lives began to change, not always better in the short run, but definitely different and unquestionably better in the long run....

The universe looks back at our efforts to grasp it and says, «there is continuity for your use, but the continuity you use in your act of being conscious was not there yesterday, and will be gone tomorrow; today it is my gift to you.»

To call those who actually reflect on their own spirituality and make conscious efforts to live based on a moral compass, rather than as herded sheep, self - obsessed is not only pretentious but a reflection of your indoctrination in the school of those who believe out of fear — which is worse?

The God of the future is not really God of the present; for in the present the man is still conscious of an effort to escape the judgment of God, of a possibility of justifying himself before God; he does not see himself standing in the present before the God who judges.

We must make a conscious effort if the presence is to be known to us at first hand and not simply by hearsay.

A more likely view, and one held by many competent interpreters, is that this present collection of ten commandments, this Decalogue, this aggregate of «ten words,» probably represents not an original nucleus around which the growing fullness of Old Testament torah formed, not a chronologically prior basic code which was subsequently expanded, but rather a self - conscious, consummately discerning effort to reduce to its most significant essence a relatively comprehensive and detailed body of torah.

So far as any published «systematic theology» is concerned, a self - conscious effort to frame religious truth for the Pentecostal tradition within its own time and space something even remotely comparable to Donald Gelpi's work for Roman Catholic charismatics, not to mention Karl Barth's magisterial Church Dogmatics for the Reformed tradition - there simply is no such Pentecostal theology.

He also made a conscious effort to point out that the Senate does not need another «liberal person» like Moore's opponent, Doug Jones, in office.

I don't think I'm ever going to have that kind of time on my hands again, but I do make a conscious effort to spend moments doing nothing — not planning, not worrying about my career, not cleaning the kitchen or alphabetizing books.

Making the conscious effort to buy locally sourced ingredients that have been humanely and ethically treated not only helps your community, but also makes you feel better mentally and physically.

I want to see progress, not necessarily success but a conscious effort to move forward, not an annual merry - go - round of false dawns, and quite obviously so too do players on the inside of this philosophy as it is now.

It takes conscious effort to not be passively racist.

Overall I feel that we have made a conscious effort in our board meetings to block the increase of our tickets and in seven of the past 10 years we have not increased our prices.

I am not making a conscious effort to remember all the times my children have cried and I have not known what to do to help them.

I feel like I have to sometimes make a real conscious effort to not step in and just take over!

I don't know to what extend I am addicted, but I know that I will always struggle with food temptations, and that it will always take a conscious effort on my part, every minute of the day, to choose health over what my mind tells me.

While launching a new business can be hard enough on its own, Fillingham makes a conscious effort to make sure she doesn't let her work interfere with her time with family.

It is recommended that you don't make a conscious effort to lose weight during the first two months of your baby's life.

I did not stop myself from buying something if I really liked it, but I had to make a conscious effort to say «no» to a lot of gifts.

Becky Bond, CREDO's political director, told BuzzFeed that the Obama group has been «silent on Keystone,» and has made a conscious effort to «not talk about it.»

Astorino has made a conscious effort to not affect the county bus system, which currently has about 110,000 riders.

M.S.: It wasn't anything that I had to make a conscious effort to do.

Sure, it's possible that this sort of self - analysis will lead you to choose a different career path, but another outcome is equally likely: that your new - found self - knowledge — knowing your strengths and weaknesses — will allow you to exploit the former and compensate for the latter in a way that you just wouldn't manage without self - analysis and a conscious effort.

That won't happen on auto pilot; these couples made a conscious effort to ward off routinization of sex.»

Previous brain - machine interface systems have made it possible for people to control robots, cursors, or prosthetics with conscious thought, but they often take a lot of effort and concentration, says José del R. Millán, a biomedical engineer at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, who develops brain - machine interface systems that don't need to be implanted into the brain.

When this article was first published on 26 February 2014, it did not acknowledge that the first trial of deep brain stimulation in a minimally conscious person was a team effort.

The eager males — choosy females paradigm doesn't imply that men and women literally make conscious decisions about how much effort they should put into short - and long - term mating relative to their costs of reproduction — minutes versus months.

Don't forget who's doing the real work here — your muscle fibers accept all the workload you place on them but they, being completely unaware of themselves, need your conscious movement - managing efforts to guide them to work towards achieving your personal goals.

I don't know about you, but I have to make a conscious effort to wake up and not look directly at my text messages and the rising number in my email inbox.

It takes a conscious effort to achieve balance, and of course it doesn't just fall easily into our laps.

While I don't feel the need to take iron supplements (as recommended by doctors), I am going to make a conscious effort to eat more iron - rich foods.