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

2. What is Focus? Why Focus is Important How to Focus

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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.

6. Priorities

7. Create an Environment to Improve Focus Listen to Relaxing Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUaFugdLWyE&list=FL_HgyA2IEhj7n8CTvtP625Q&index=1

8. Create an Environment to Improve Focus Use Aromatherapy - Use Scentsy

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

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

11. Don’t Procrastinate

12. Write Down What You Are Going To Do

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

14. Start Small

15. Stop Multi-tasking

16. Manage Your Attention

17. Pay Attention to One Thing At a Time

18. To Start Say You’ll Do It For Five Minutes

19. Manage Your Stress

20. Take Breaks

21. Get Enough Sleep

22. Get Exercise

23. Stay Hydrated

24. Do 20 20 20 – To Improve Vision

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

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

27. Exercises to Improve Focus Concentrate on Your Breathing

28. Exercises to Improve Focus Meditate

29. Do Satisfying Work Do What You Love Love What You Do

30. 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.