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You'll get more out of life if you pay attention. You can learn whether the things you thought you loved to do are really as satisfying as you thought. Conversely, you can see that tasks you normally avoid are not really that bad; in fact, they can fulfilling and lead to flow if you are consciously aware when you do them. Always ask yourself what you are getting from each activity.

A Canadian mergers and acquisitions specialist practiced this live-with when she faced an onerous task: She was doing research that required her to peruse thousands of pages of information in hundreds of boxes of documents. She struggled to find something to love about old books, dust, dim lighting, and instant headaches.

"To my surprise," she says, "I did find plenty-although it took some effort at the beginning of this task. What I found was me amazing stuff: hand-written public offerings from the late 1890s, beautiful handwriting in ledgers, precise and careful keeping of records, and so on."

She found that being conscious about an experience that seemed difficult at first had really turned it around for her. "I looked for the stories in the boxes and the pages," she says, "and came away with a clearer perspective of what I had read and what I had researched."

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