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Powerful Ways To
Sharpen Your Focus
Focus is one of the
most underrated, yet fundamental aspects
towards achieving your goals. Once you are in
possession of this tool, not only will producing new
ideas become easy, but it will become natural and stimulating
to keep going down the rabbit hole to explore more. The trick
therefore is to make sure that we have focus in the first
place, and then protect this state of mind so that we are
always progressing at maximum speed towards our goals. Below
you will find a few unique tips to help you on your
way:
1. Remove all
focus leakages in your life.
This means
that you need to make a dedicated effort to change yourself,
so that the only focus that you have in your life is always
moving you towards your goals. What the leakage is will
depend on how far away the action or leakage is from your
goal. For example, if i wanted to be a multi-millionaire, but
all i ever did was talk to myself about it, then the leakage
is the "talking to
yourself" part. Talking to yourself can be
useful, but if it is not coupled with action towards your
goals, then it is in vain. Other common leakages
include
A. Watching television, playing video games and reading
fiction
books
B. Fantasising about our goals all the
time
C. Wasting time by hanging about with friends and
following the
crowd
D.
Debating, arguing, opinionating and judging
situations
Please note that these are
stereotypical examples. For example, if i wanted to be a
world-class debater, it is clearly in my interest to debate.
If i wanted to be a video games expert, i would need
to play games etc. The trick therefore is to understand
what a leakage is for your particular situation and goal in
life, and be able to minimise these before and when they
occur. This will happen by making a key decision to do so,
which brings me to our next point.
2. Make an unwavering decision
to only focus towards attaining your
goal.
The reason why this is difficult,
is because most people do not know what a decision is in the
first place. A decision is not simply writing something down
and saying that you're going to do it. A decision is to decide
and choose to do something and not do anything else.
A decision is an elimination tool where you eliminate all
other possibilities and only do the one that you have set out.
That is a decision. When you make that decision and only
go down one route, you increase your mental certainty that the
goal at the end will come about, because you have
eliminated all other courses of action, and have decided on
one route. This is an extremely powerful lesson.
3. Realise that focus is made up
of mental, behavioural and attitudinal
aspects.
Focus is not just about mental
focus. In fact, mental focus is actually the easiest aspect of
focus which comes naturally. The tricky parts of focus are
those aspects which nobody thinks about, in the forms of
behavioural and attitudinal focus. When you have behavioural
focus, it means that you are always constantly striving
towards your goals through physical action towards
it. Attitudinal focus is your attitude towards your goal and
plight. When you have a positive and good attitude, you
believe that your goal is possible and it begins to
become more certain in your mind. When you believe attitudinal
that the goal is a lost cause, you lack focus towards it,
because you're attitude is clearly turned away from it.
The trick here is to always
be moving towards our goals through action on a
daily basis in order to possess focus. We will lack focus
if we do not, and decide instead to lazy around and watch
TV. We must therefore also have our attitudinal focus to
back up this action, through maintaining the correct
beliefs about our goal and the faith regarding the
soundness of our approach to obtaining it.
The
mental focus will then automatically come about, because we
have made a firm decision to act and get on with things to
maintain our physical and attitudinal focus towards achieving
our goals.
4. Focus on
doing one thing at a time.
When you do
one thing at a time, you are applying the first
secret of focus: that is, you allow more energy to be
produced to expand your awareness of the thing you
are focused on, both through you, and in itself. The reason
why this is important, is because it is not what you
do in your life, but how you do it that matters. If
you concentrate on the how to let the life
force flow through you properly, you will
actually get more done than if you tried to do several things
at once. To explain this properly, if i were to go to a
woman and attempt to attract her or go to a company to win
business (as examples) , i could say all the right things
and still have zero results, because it is not
what i say that matters, but how i say
it.
5. Stay in a focused
environment.
This is linked to
behavioural focus but is worth a mention in its own section.
If i hang about with lazy people, i will become lazy
myself. One must therefore make an effort to get in
the right environment so that it allows you to
reinforce your behaviour and get on with acting towards
our goals. Other environmental distractions include parents,
spouses, children, friends, TV, "the big game", movies,
fiction, busy places, the news, newspapers, magazines,
computer games etc etc. Distractions are all around so we
need to make sure that we make the firm decision to do one
particular thing and achieve one particular goal, and
then the magic of focus will do its work.
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