Hi 🙂

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

Anthony Robbins

Today I want to talk about focus.

Try to think of “doing things” in a binary way. There is 1 and 0. Either you DO something, or you DO NOT. There is no “driving while thinking of what you are going to eat in the afternoon and alongside talking to your co-driver” and no “watching TV while munching some fast-food and listening to the radio”. Try to do things apart from each other and pay them your full attention! You will soon notice that when your thoughts are not wandering around but on the job, that you’ll feel much more energetic and more powerful. Your thoughts are not somewhere in the caribic, dreaming of other times, they are here and now with your body and the task in front of you. That will give you an incredible power in doing things and you will soon realise that you get more shit done in fewer time.

You are great at multitasking? Take a break!

Maybe take the example of doing your laundry. When you do it as a side line and watch TV while doing it and keep your thoughts away from focus, you may need an hour and you will constantly think: “When will this be over? This sucks. I hate doing my laundry.” Or you can chose to concentrate on doing your damn laundry, get it done in half an hour and have more free time! You have to decide, if you want to do it or not. If you do it, do it properly and accurate. If you don’t do it that is ok as well, then don’t do it, but you have to make this decision. All this iffy and indecisive idling keeps you from getting anything done properly! Even if you decide to procastinate for a while, that is totally fine, but do it with passion (literally), rather than keeping thoughts in your mind like “I should be doing this or that”.

Make the decision and run all the way through it. The outcome sucks? All right, then you know better next time, so don’t waste a thought about it anymore. Keep your headspace clean and tidy in order to get shit done today.

/phil