Has Hypnosis Finally Been Vindicated by Neuroscience? Time Targets: What's the Focus of Your Life? To Stay Focused, Manage Your Emotions. A leader’s most precious resource is not their time.
It’s their focused attention. Time merely passes, while focused attention makes things happen. When we’re able to gather and direct our attention toward a particular task or interaction, we can have a significant impact in a minimal amount of time. But when we’re unable to bring our attention to bear on the work at hand, all the time in the world is insufficient.
So what are the implications of this for leaders? Where to Focus. Focus On Things Within Your Control. The Two Circles. Stop Wasting Time on Things that Don't Have a Purpose in Your Life. Decide What NOT To Do. Understand Your True Purpose. How to Increase Your Focus. Post written by Leo Babauta.
Focus: Single-Tasking and Productivity, by Leo Babauta. ‘Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand.
The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.’ ~Alexander Graham Bell Many of us grew up in the age of multi-tasking, where you couldn’t call yourself productive if you weren’t a good multi-tasker. We learned to always have several balls in the air at once — while writing something on the computer, we had a phone call going, we were writing something on a notepad or paper form, we were reviewing documents, sometimes even holding a meeting at the same time. That’s the productive worker, the effective executive. How to Focus Mindmap. How to Train Your Brain to Stay Focused. As an entrepreneur, you have a lot on your plate.
Staying focused can be tough with a constant stream of employees, clients, emails, and phone calls demanding your attention. Amid the noise, understanding your brain’s limitations and working around them can improve your focus and increase your productivity. Our brains are finely attuned to distraction, so today's digital environment makes it especially hard to focus. "Distractions signal that something has changed," says David Rock, co-founder of the NeuroLeadership Institute and author of Your Brain at Work (HarperCollins, 2009). "A distraction is an alert says, 'Orient your attention here now; this could be dangerous.'"
How to Focus A Wandering Mind. New research reveals what happens in a wandering mind—and sheds light on the cognitive and emotional benefits of increased focus.
We’ve all been there. Train Your Brain for Monk-Like Focus. The Secret Weapon For Better Focus. Advertisement.
Super-Focus: 10 Natural Steps to Nurture Your Attention. How to deal with interruptions, structure your environment, enter a flow state and much more… “Pay attention.
It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. 1. Zanshin: Learning the Art of Attention and Focus From a Legendary Samurai Archer. In the 1920s, a German man named Eugen Herrigel moved to Japan and began training in Kyudo, the Japanese martial art of archery.
Herrigel was taught by a legendary Kyudo master named Awa Kenzo. Kenzo was convinced that beginners should master the fundamentals of archery before attempting to shoot at a real target and he took this method to the extreme. For the first four years, Herrigel was only allowed to shoot at a roll of straw just seven feet away. When he was finally allowed to shoot at targets on the far end of the practice hall, Herrigel’s performance was dismal. The arrows flew off course and he became more discouraged with each wayward shot.
Jeff Weiner On How To Focus And Get The Right Things Done. Source: PicJumbo.
If you want to be successful in life and work, you have to learn how to lead. But before you can lead others, you have to lead by example. You have to learn how to lead yourself. Jeff Weiner, founder of LinkedIn, has a powerful mechanism for leadership: he has FOCUS (a.k.a. FCS). Warren Buffett's "2 List" Strategy: How to Maximize Your Focus and Master Your Priorities.
With well over 50 billion dollars to his name, Warren Buffett is consistently ranked among the wealthiest people in the world.
Out of all the investors in the 20th century, Buffett was the most successful. Given his success, it stands to reason that Buffett has an excellent understanding of how to spend his time each day. From a monetary perspective, you could say that he manages his time better than anyone else. And that's why the story below, which was shared directly from Buffett's employee to my good friend Scott Dinsmore, caught my attention. Let's talk about the simple 3-step productivity strategy that Warren Buffett uses to help his employees determine their priorities and actions.
The ONE Thing: How to Get Things Done Using The Focusing Question. Source: PicJumbo. On June 23, 1885, Andrew Carnegie stood before a room of wide-eyed students at Curry Commercial College and addressed the audience. “‘Don’t put all your eggs in one basket’ is all wrong” he said. [1] Carnegie, then 49 years old, was at his peak of success: his company, the Carnegie Steel Company, was the largest and most profitable company in the world.
“I tell you ‘put all your eggs in one basket, and then watch that basket’” counselled Carnegie, “Look round you and take notice; men who do that do not often fail”. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Teaching Interests and Areas of Expertise Creativity and Innovation, Managing Flow Current Research Interests Professor Csikszentmihalyi is the founder and co-director of the Quality of Life Research Center (QLRC). Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow, the secret to happiness. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Creativity, fulfillment and flow. Flow: Getting into the zone at work. The Psychology of Flow. What is it like to be fully alive, right now, engaged with what you are doing? That’s the psychology of flow. When the happiness and creativity expert Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi was studying how painters work, he noticed an odd thing.
When their painting was going well they didn’t care about getting tired, hungry or uncomfortable, they just carried on. But when the painting was finished, they rapidly lost interest in it. Finding Flow this weekend. Anyone who watches sports is familiar with the concept of being "in the zone. " Whether it is Kobe Bryant flying around and through defenders with seeming ease, Tom Brady knifing perfect spirals into tiny openings in the defense, Serena Williams humbling opponents with laser-like groundstrokes, or Nastia Liukin flying through one nearly perfect routine after another in the Beijing Olympic games, when an athlete is "in the zone" it seems he or she can do no wrong.
And, it's not just athletes who experience being in the zone. Artists and performers of all types also achieve this exalted state. Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced, mee-hy cheek-sent-mə-hy-ee) and colleagues have studied this phenomenon in athletes, musicians, dancers and others and given this zone state a name— flow . Researchers have learned that being in a flow state not only yields optimum performance, but it has other benefits as well. Can money buy happiness? When the mind hijacks my flow state - Venessa Miemis. The Secret to Productivity: Focus. Focus. The Focused Leader. Idea in Brief The Problem. Why Focus Makes Us Smarter.
Your Focus Determines Your Reality. Distracted? 11 Hacks That Will Help You Focus. (Infographic) Daniel Goleman on don't let distraction kill your focus and productivity. 11 Ways to Avoid Distractions and Stay Focused. Distraction List. FOCUS Acronym. To Stay Focused, Manage Your Emotions. How to Stay Focused When You Get Bored Working Toward Your Goals. 18 Ways to Stay Focused at Work. 11 ways of staying focused. Top 7 Ways To Remain Focused.
Single-minded determination is not something that many of us can honestly say that we have on a regular basis. There might be the odd moments of concentrated "will-power" or flashes of inspired effort, but for most of us, lack of confidence, confusion or simply information overload causes us to be easily distracted from our path. When faced with two equally attractive opportunities, have you ever lost energy pursuing both at the same time with the inevitable consequence of neither of them panning out? Do you remember doing your homework in front of the TV or listening to the radio? How To Get & Stay Focused. Stay Focused. Mind is a frequent, but not happy, wanderer: People spend nearly half their waking hours thinking about what isn’t going on around them. 10 Tips for Improving Concentration.
The Focusing Institute. Keep Calm and Stay Focused. Focus Your Attention.