Forcing Yourself to Focus
"Focus on one thing at a time."- sage advice
We fool ourselves into thinking that we can multi-task. We are designed to be serial doers and when we try to do things in parallel, we fail to achieve quality results.
I am someone who often has many ideas that I want to execute. So trying to focus at times is often a challenge. But I force myself.
How?
I pick the one thing that I will focus on during the next 90 days and everything else just gets added to the list. At the end of the 90 days I reconsider what I will focus on.
This is not to say that at times I do not loose focus and start working on something else. BUT I will quickly catch myself that I am drifting. Another way I catch myself is through my notebook in which I keep my daily schedule. Once I see that I have not worked on my main focus for a day or so I know that I am drifting.
Today's question is:
"How do you catch yourself drifting away from your focus?"
"Focus on one thing at a time."- sage advice
We fool ourselves into thinking that we can multi-task. We are designed to be serial doers and when we try to do things in parallel, we fail to achieve quality results.
I am someone who often has many ideas that I want to execute. So trying to focus at times is often a challenge. But I force myself.
How?
I pick the one thing that I will focus on during the next 90 days and everything else just gets added to the list. At the end of the 90 days I reconsider what I will focus on.
This is not to say that at times I do not loose focus and start working on something else. BUT I will quickly catch myself that I am drifting. Another way I catch myself is through my notebook in which I keep my daily schedule. Once I see that I have not worked on my main focus for a day or so I know that I am drifting.
Today's question is:
"How do you catch yourself drifting away from your focus?"
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