The Power Of Focus - By Steve Peters

p>Ok, some people have probably told you that you can’t multi task. Perhaps they said you had problems because you couldn’t multitask. No doubt they seemed a bit smug to you as well. If you can’t multitask well in todays world you can feel like a dinosaur. So its no surprise that people associate multi tasking with success.

As far as I am concerned, nothing could be farther from the truth. If you are trying to learn to multitask, I beg you to STOP now ! Multitasking is a sham. A con. It gives the illusion of efficiency and mastery. In reality it is inefficient and tedious.

Did Henry Ford make each worker assemble a car each ? No, they each did one task. He said that anything can be done if you can only break it down into small enough pieces. Motivating yourself requires that you break tasks into smaller groups.

Smaller tasks seem less daunting and you can really feel confident about completing them. If you focus on one task at a time you will get to you goal with the worries and concerns of only ONE goal at the time. If you multitask you increase geometrically both the complexity of the task, and the chance that you will make a mistake.

Focus is really taking things one step at a time. The more you learn to hone in on the most important tasks the more efficient you focus will be. Keep closing in. Take things one step at a time, and you will find that your slow and frustrating approach to tasks brings success far quicker than multitasking.

Multitasking should be left for mundane basic tasks that have been repeated so many times that they have become automatic. By its very definition, focus is narrow and precise, and it these qualities that give you the power to achieve again and again whilst your multitasking colleagues are left giving piecemeal quality work riddled with mistakes !

Hypnotist Paul MacKenna tells of when he was learning to drive on a race track. He soon learnt that skidding can be fatal. He discovered that focus was the key to increasing your chances of avoiding a crash. New drivers are taught that it is what they focus on in a spin that matter. Most people will focus on the wall they are trying to avoid. Yet hey often end up crashing into the wall they wished to avoid. Instead of concentrating on the negative, to break out of the spin they should concentrate on where they want to go.

The human mind, for whatever reason, gravitates to whatever you think about. It doesn’t understand the concept of negatives. In other words if you think I don’t want to eat about chocolate, you mind will not process the negative commands, it will merely go after the object thought of, in this case chocolate.

Knowing this, I always try to focus on positive aspects of things. Faced with a problem I think of the solution, not what I need to stop doing. EG - I’m am eating more fruit and vegetables rather than I shouldn’t eat chocolate.

Remember the perculiar nature of focus the next time you are trying to solve a problem…

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