The Focused Life Book Novels & Stories

the most important person in his life. Lani almost gasped at the beauty of Scar's childhood home as she took off her helmet. The house was in solitude on a large plot of land far from the local town. Two-story, white, with flowers sprinkled around the outskirts, the home looked old but looked after. Lani could tell that a lot of love had been put into the home and that made her smile instantly. Dotted around the house, trees swayed nonchalantly to the soft summer breeze. The sun shone brighter here and placed a heavenly glow on the grass that encircling Scar's home.

She used to write about kindness in the journal she carried everywhere. Whenever life became overwhelming, I'd open one of those pages and remind myself that good people still existed. Standing here now... I was beginning to believe it again. "Aya?" Jamey's sleepy voice floated through the hallway. "In here!" A few seconds later, my younger brother wandered inside without looking where he was going, his nose buried inside a thick book. "Pancakes," he muttered automatically. Then his foot slammed into one of the stools. "Ouch." He looked up.

Whatever came next, we would face it together. As I looked around at the people who had been my constant through it all—Ethan, Ivy, Jasmine, and Leo—I knew I wasn’t alone. Whatever came next, we would face it together. But life, as I had come to realize, rarely followed a script. The weeks that followed were a whirlwind of preparation for the book launch. The publisher was eager to move quickly, capitalizing on the growing buzz around my content creation journey. It was surreal to think that my life, once confined to the walls of a small café, was now reaching people in ways I never imagined.

With no way out, he had to ride in the same car. Now, I realized why he was so nervous that entire time and why he kept urging me to drive slower. Ashley fell to her knees, crying, "Felix, why would you do this?" Why? I had a good guess. A few months ago, Felix had borrowed money from loan sharks to feed his gambling habit. He couldn't repay them and came begging me for help, but I had no money to give him. When I advised him to turn himself in to the police, he fell to his knees and pleaded, "Please, Sean. You can't report this. If the police get involved, my life is over. They'll break my arms. Please help me, Sean."

Isabella went through it before dropping her phone to focus on reading as she tried so hard to concentrate without having to think about Leo. How can she fully stay focused when her thoughts are already occupied with something else? After what seemed like forever, she shook her head and began reading her book. Thankfully, it worked after spending hours trying to figure out how best she could read without having to divide her attention for anything else aside from the book.

If only I had known that Jane would come to him, I should have come to him first, for I have first known him, he belonged to me. ‘Believe, the simple little things of today might be the bigger things tomorrow. ’ she said and pulled a book from the bookshelf; Ikigai - The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life, and handed the book to me. ‘Open it to whatever page,’ I then opened the book, page 66, the first thing I read was, Live an Unhurried Life. ‘What do you see?’ she asked. ‘It says, Live an Unhurried Life.’

“None of that would happen. Just forget about it for now and try to focus on what you want. Don't think about it.” I nodded my head to Jada's words. She handed the book to me. I closed my eyes with the book in my hand, trying hard to channel my focus to the guardians. I blocked off every other thing and whispered inwardly to myself— ‘concentrate’ I felt a bright light shining directly on my face. I opened one eye to see the book radiating light like it did the first time. “Close your eyes. Don't get distracted.” Jada urged. I shut my eyes and the pages of the book flipped open. I could hear the light paper fluttering, until it stopped at a particular page.

Everything was changing too quickly and The Books of Life were becoming the center of everything. And if we didn't get them as we initially planned, we might miss the change and as well, get affected by it negatively.

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"Lucky for me, I was born with a silver spoon, unlike some people, born to parents who abandoned them." I couldn't help but think back to when Freddie had sat next to me on my bed in my past life, sipping from the bowl of nourishing soup that was supposed to help me recover. He had sneered, "Tyler, you're going to die anyway. Drinking all that soup won't change a thing. I'll just enjoy it for you; no need to thank me." I wanted to rip him apart right then and there—just the thought of him made my skin crawl.