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I find I'm more successful when focusing on the brimming cup of coffee. Especially when I climb my stairs. Paying attention to the brimming cup of coffee also allows me to walk faster around sharp corners. This either indicates that my coffee focused carrying is superior to yours or I have a relative weakness humming-based Newtonian physics.
Can you suggest a better example of replacing an ultimate goal by a proximate one?
"Keep your eye on the ball!" (Note, it is the trying to keep your eye on the ball that seems to provide the benefit. If you study the actual motion of the eyes the last instants of motion basically don't get tracked anyway.)