The Power Of Focus Can Offer Extraordinary Benefits
Here is your quote for today: Self-actualizing people – highly functioning people who live at extraordinary levels of awareness – train their minds to focus on what they intend to create and what they intend to manifest, and they won’t let anybody change their mind. Wayne Dyer
How is your power of focus? Can you concentrate on a project until you complete it, or do you get easily distracted? Such concentration might not be easy to develop, but you will find it important to achieve the focus you need.
What old habits do you have that get in the way of your focus? Do you watch too much TV? Spend too much time reading entertaining books? Do you simply procrastinate by finding lots of other things you'd rather do?
One technique that might help: End each day by writing down a plan for the next day...all the steps you have to take in the order you need to take them. Establishing your plan the night before allows your subconscious to work on it all night.
Now that you have your plan for the day, you must bring in that power of focus. You need to work through your day's plan and make the action steps necessary to complete it. Do the same for every new day.
If you have items on your list that you need to learn more about, spend part of your day educating yourself. Expanding your knowledge can teach you an answer or two that fit perfectly with your day's activities.
Be consistent in your action. Don't let other people or other projects get in your way. Reconsider what you most want to achieve, and realize that you have to act in a consistent way to add such an achievement to your collection of accomplishments.
Remember the cat and be persistent about what you want. It does you no good to decide you want something and then fail to do the steps necessary to attain that part of your goal. Keep trying.
Perhaps you have worked for something for a long time, and still have not achieved it. Don't quit. Your success could be close at hand. Think about the miner who quits digging just before he hits that rich vein. Don't lose your progress by giving up.
Focus revolves around the power of concentration. Here's a small closing quote on that subject that's illuminating: "Concentration comes out of a combination of confidence and hunger." (Arnold Palmer) Find your focus and tune it in to your plan of action -- You can do it!
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Wow Fran! Your stoves must be working at full capacity again!
Having focus on what one is doing sounds easy enough, but... that is far from the truth in my opinion...
There are so many distractions these days that make it a lot harder than days gone by to stay truly focused on one thing until it is done properly!
Great post my friend and enjoy the rest of your weekend! ;-)
You have spoken truth -- the many distractions create the reason for focusing to be difficult. We have to learn to shut the distractions and focus on what is most important. I don't always find this easy -- especially if I'm reading a good book -- but at some point, focusing on what is more important than that dang book has to be done.
Thanks, Fran. That is my primary purpose for being here in WA.
Have an excellent rest of your day!
Jeff
Well, you are a good example, as we can see that you are making progress.
Me, too...have my Sunday blog about half-written. Things got delayed because of the stove problem, and now I'm finally getting pics and prep for the next round of items to go in the boutique. That seems to be the place where I'm making my money.
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Focussing can be really hard these days. It’s so easy to get distracted when we’re so busy. But having real passion for the task at hand certainly helps. Very relatable post, Fran. Have a great evening with Mocha!
Susan
Thanks, Susan.
Mocha has been a handful today. He's figured out how to get to the top of the shelves holding my towels (A good 6 feet high) and, standing on top of that, has been digging at the light fixture up above there that no longer works. What a little pill!
Uh-oh. He does sound like a little trouble maker. But that’s part of life with a cat.
Yep, especially a young very curious one.