An example of this is a new project in Swaziland that Nest is set to announce with the Voss Foundation, an independent public charity that aims to help fulfill communities' water needs so that people can concentrate on self-improvement.
The beats are lean electronic loops with hints of exotica and nonstop dance-floor drive; the boasts concentrate on self-praise and put-downs of rivals' fashion sense, sometimes with a precise zinger: "Your shoes could feed a village, you should think about that".
Instead they concentrate on self-preservation, self-improvement, and self-completion.
In the present study, we concentrate on self-reported levels of resiliency, generalized self-efficacy, and perception of workplace empowerment in a sample of humanitarian workers working in a long-term complex emergency.
That is what is self-defeating in modes of contemporary culture that concentrate on self-fulfillment in opposition to the demands of society, or nature, which shut out history and the bonds of solidarity.
Stagnancy is a time to turn inward, to concentrate on self-improvement and personal evolution.
The trim, elfin figure of Mailer himself is in a kind of antechamber to one side, concentrating on self-composure for another photographer.
Would concentrating on self-service customers allow Recruiterbox to stick with its original goals and get more business?
(Perhaps you've heard of the novel "Fifty Shades of Grey," which began its life as a self-published work?) Still, a huge majority of self-published books "don't sell a lot of copies," said Mark Coker, the founder and chief executive of Smashwords, a no-frills operation that concentrates on self-published e-books.
Especially through a first half in which the long odds-on favourites should have fallen at least one but probably two goals behind, the Ibrox players evinced the woolly headed and stiff-jointed movement of men whose nights have been spent concentrating on self-indulgence.
Baumeister says his current research contains quite a different lesson about how to be a successful person: "Forget about self-esteem--concentrate on self-control".
