Focus: The Best Skill To Learn To Move Your Business Ahead Faster
Focus, for most, is a difficult thing to do.
Focus means, “Follow one course until successful!”
Why would you do that?, Your brain would ask you as you tried to follow one course.
It is so much more fun to go over here or over there, or maybe up that mountain. And just like that you mind would wonder off to a boat ride, a new toy or another person. And just like that you have spent the only two hours you had… doing nothing.
According to Darren Hardy we have two things or two parts of our mind working against us. They are what he calls your monkey brain and your robot brain.
The monkey brain is the part that is looking for excitement and fun, things that move and shinny objects!
While the Robot brain is for survival and will do what ever it can to keep your body safe and in a comfortable place. This is where your habits are stored
There is a third part of the brain but these two are what is fighting against our ability to focus.
Preparing to Focus
When a chef goes to cook a great meal the first thing he or she does is prepare all the ingredients.
They first focus on getting all the pots and pans, cooking and stirring utensils, bowls cups and measuring pieces the are going to need.
Then they lay out the food and sometimes get all the chopping, washing, separating and measuring all done.
If your business is as important to you as the chef’s meal they are about to prepare… then you should prepare with the same enthusiasm and intensity.
Focus preparation: a smaller step but essential.
The first thing to do is shut off All distractions. In plain English, turn off your phone, your Facebook notifications, messenger notification, YouTube notifications, shut and lock the door, etc.
According to LifeHacker.com loud sounds and blinking lights are the biggest distractions.
Loud sounds because this affects the robot or survival part that prepare the fight or flight mode in our brain to get the body ready. Think about that, if you hear a loud crashing or popping noise you turn or flinch, maybe even jump to see what the sound is about.
This sound can be as little at the dinging noise Facebook messenger has, or a text ping, and whether you answer it or not your mind has went to that sound. You are now thinking… who sent me a message or text? And, get this…
Even if you do not answer it or look at the phone, messenger etc. you have been distracted and used up energy making a decision (resisting) to look at who or what is trying to get your attention.
Now it can take you up to 25 minutes to get back in the flow of things. Wow! look at how much time you have lost!
Flashing light Focus
The same with the flashing lights. You are driving down the road and suddenly 3 miles ahead you see blue or red or yellow flashing lights. Now your mind has went from driving and staying safe to… I wonder what that is?
“The policeman has somebody stopped! I am glad its not me!”
“Was there a wreck? … I hope nobody was hurt”
So when you have social media tabs open and a number pops up or a red flag you look… just like that you are off in La-La land.
Preparing to focus on something, a task, blog post, research paper, sales page or presentation, it doesn’t matter what it is getting prepared to do this is as important as the next step which is…
How to train our self to focus
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