2. Be Fully Present
Have you ever heard the saying: "Live in the moment?" Truer words could not be said when you are working on being more focused.
There is no way you can do something well if you have one foot in the past or in the future. Worrying about what has happened or what could happen does not feed your energy to give you the strength of focus you need to manage what is happening now.
When you stay engaged in the present you intensify your focus and your ability to concentrate. Your thinking and understanding become clearer and of course, you have both hands and feet to out towards the task at hand. 🙂
Remember, you cannot cahnge what has happened in the past and, the future is yet to come. What you are doing now, in the present can impact the outcome of what you want to achieve in the future and also keep you from repaeating any mistakes that you have made.
If your mind strays, keep bring it back it the here and now. Practice talking to yourself as if someone was talking to you. With practice, you wil find yourself letting go of what is outside of your immediate ability to control.
It is strange but just before I read your tutorial I stumbled over an article via the Pocket app, named "Indistracted", which goes hand in hand with what you write here and your related blog post about Focus the other day.
I have noticed lately that I have been suffering a bit form distraction myself, from stress due to heavy workloads at work, and trying to get some progress in my digital entrepreneurship.
The distraction takes me into a digital screen doing research and work related to my digital entrepreneurship, overlooking among other things, our dog. She has started to react to my distraction, and has showed it to me lately that she is not happy with my shift of focus.
This weekend, I will re-write my work schedule and DMO details to allow for more quality time with family and our little fur baby.
Your Call-to-Action in your tutorials are spot on.
-Roy-
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Balancing the scale is an ongoing activity.
Honestly, I do not think that it is ever really equally balanced.
Some days it is more of one thing and less of another.
That is why planning is important and prioritising critical.
Do not neglect your family and loved ones.
Your dog knows that he is getting less than he usually does.
My way of addressing that is involving my dog and my daughter in my breaks and doing something fun with them for 10-20 minutes then, back to work for a bit.
They really feel included then. 🙂
Instinctively, you will know.
Cassi
