Regaining Focus: 5 Ways to Get Back On Track When You've Lost Your Way
5 Ways to Focus and Get Back on Task ~ Reclaiming Your Day
Each day, dozens of tasks are calling your name, both at work and in your personal life. With life being so busy, it’s easy to lose focus on the big picture. Once you lose focus, it isn't easy to get all of your tasks done promptly, if you get them done at all.
How many times have you gone to bed wondering what you actually accomplished that day? Or have you ever felt like your day was somehow wasted?
To avoid these feelings, you can try several methods to get yourself back on track. Rather than lamenting your wasted time, resolve to regain your focus and get back on task.
Confucius Says...
There’s a famous quote about focus by the great philosopher Confucius: “If you chase two rabbits, you catch none.” True, there might be people who can multitask and do it relatively well; but more often than not, people who split their attention between two different tasks have a more difficult time completing both tasks well.
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Here are five ways to regain your focus and get back on task:
- Eliminate distractions. Get rid of the barriers causing you to avoid getting things done – it’s that simple! Forget about checking email every five minutes; those emails will still be there when you complete your task. Make a list of distractions and eliminate them!
- Turn off the phone and let the voice mail take over.
- Close the blinds in your office.
- Turn off the music if you find yourself singing more than working.
- Simply closing the door to your office can give you more privacy and more focus.
- Prioritize your work. Rather than working on projects simultaneously, take one thing at a time, focus on it, and worry about all the other projects later. Ultimately, you’ll get a lot more done and you’ll finish it more quickly. You’ll also be recognized by the high quality that you deliver when you’re free from distractions.
- Find a way to prioritize that works best for you. Choose either the project with the earliest deadline or the one with the least components so you can finish it quickly and get it out of the way. Both systems have pros and cons, so tackle it whichever way works for you.
- Tell everyone to respect your time. There are many nice and respectful ways to tell people to back off. If you’re finding yourself in a time crunch and can’t seem to get away from others, consider letting them know that you need time to finish some important tasks. There are many different ways to do it – just make sure you do!
- Set times that you’ll accept phone calls and even visitors. Tell them to contact you by email and then set a regular time to check your email.
- Set business hours during which people can expect you to return their calls or emails.
- Set some limitations with your internet access. The internet is wonderful but can be a huge time waster, especially if you work at a computer all day. Regain your focus with some self-imposed rules.
- First, close all those windows you’re not using. Avoid MySpace or Facebook, quit searching on eBay, and leave messenger alone!
- Establish specific times to use these fun things each day and just focus on what you have to do. You’ll quickly accomplish more!
- Have confidence in your abilities. This may seem like a small thing when it comes to focusing and getting back on task, but believing that you can get everything you set out to do puts you in a positive frame of mind, and you’ll be less distracted by stress and worry.
- Have confidence that you can complete each task with ease and believe in your ability to deliver. If you’ll just have the confidence, you’re sure to have the focus!
Now that you’ve been introduced to five ways to focus and get back on task, it’s up to you to take action and learn how to focus your thoughts. If you’ve got to get stuff done, follow these steps to put yourself – and your goals – first!
Remember, knowledge, by itself, is not power. Knowledge effectively applied is power. You have to take the things you learn and apply them to your situations in order to reap the benefits of what you have learned.
Dr. Wallace has authored and published 24 books, including his latest work Academic Apartheid, Critical Mass: The Phenomenon of Next-Level Living, Born in Captivity: Psychopathology as a Legacy of Slavery,” The Undoing of the African American Mind, "I Am: The Power of Personal Declarations," and “The Mis-education of Black Youth in America.” He has written and published thousands of scholarly and prose articles and papers, with the overwhelming majority of his work surrounding the enigmatic issues plaguing blacks on every level. Papers that he has published include: “Special Education as the Mechanism for the Mis-education of African Youth,” “Racial Trauma & African Americans,” “Epigenetics in Psychology: The Genetic Intergenerational Transmission of Trauma in African Americans,” and “Collective Cognitive-Bias Reality Syndrome” — to name a few.
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As the Founder and CEO of The Visionetics Institute, Dr. Wallace uses a wide range of disciplines, including psycho-cybernetics, neuro-linguistic programming, psychology, neuro-associative conditioning, embodied cognitive conditioning, and transformational vocabulary, to help people raise the level of their performance in every area of their lives, including finance, marriage, business, parenting and more.
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