How to Focus PCBN Pacific Coast Business Networking February 11, 2015.

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How to Focus PCBN Pacific Coast Business Networking February 11, 2015

What is Focus? Why Focus is Important How to Focus

What is Focus? Focus is the thinking skill that allows people to begin a task without procrastination and then maintain their attention and effort until the task is complete.

Why Focus is Important Focus helps people pay attention in the midst of distractions and setbacks and to sustain the effort and energy needed to reach a goal. You Can't Think without Focus

Important Quotes on Focus Attention makes the genius.—Robert Aris Willmott. Genius is merely continued attention.- Claude Helvetius. Attention is a sure mark of the superior genius.--Lord Chesterfield. Attention is the stuff that memory is made of.--James Russell Lowell. If I have made any improvement in the sciences it is owing more to patient attention than to anything else.— Sir Isaac Newton.

Priorities

Create an Environment to Improve Focus Listen to Relaxing Music

Create an Environment to Improve Focus Use Aromatherapy - Use Scentsy

Create an Environment to Improve Focus Unclutter – Release Energy – Feng Shui

Create an Environment to Improve Focus Avoid Distractions Turn off the TV / Phone / Social Media

Don’t Procrastinate

Write Down What You Are Going To Do

Motivate Yourself to Act – Ask “WHY” Am I Doing This?

Start Small

Stop Multi-tasking

Manage Your Attention

Pay Attention to One Thing At a Time

To Start Say You’ll Do It For Five Minutes

Manage Your Stress

Take Breaks

Get Enough Sleep

Get Exercise

Stay Hydrated

Do – To Improve Vision

Exercises to Improve Focus Fix Your Gaze on Your Finger & Form a Pattern

Exercises to Improve Focus Fix Your Eyes on a Distant Object- a Color, a Sound

Exercises to Improve Focus Concentrate on Your Breathing

Exercises to Improve Focus Meditate

Do Satisfying Work Do What You Love Love What You Do

Application Managing attention takes practice & training Success is not found, it is made. One can only give the seed of how to succeed to another. Each one must make it grow within himself.