Be careful when you start concentrating or trying too hard to get anything. 

Trying very hard is not what enables things to happen; what enables things to happen is to try and work consistently over a long period of time. And then we learn the lessons needed for things to happen. 

But it’s our habit, in life as well, that when we want to do something, we want to do it harder, faster, quicker, more efficiently and more effectively. We put in a lot of energy to figure all these out and try to do things like that.

That habit will come in and we just need to notice. 

You’ll notice that the reason we’re doing that is because of unwholesome motivations.

We’re impatient and that’s dosa; we want something very quickly, so that’s lobha; and we worry that it will not happen and we anxiously try to make sure that it happens.

All these unwholesome motivations push us to try hard. So, we need to watch out for them.