To Find Something, Don't Look For It

They say that the best way to gain something is to lose it. I think very often when we are undertaking a task, we can get busy thinking of the past or what we want to gain from the action, ie about the result and thus the future. Rarely are we focussed entirely in the task at hand and thus not able to give it 100% effort and thus miss out on the enjoyment the task can actually provide but also the best result we could have.