Focus

3 Parts to Focus:

1. Distractions: things that reduce or stop focus. Like brakes in a car.
2. Focus = Interest = gas in your brain’s car. There are lots of ways to hit the gas pedal.
3. Steering = Can focus in 2 ways; to 1) Single Focus or 2) Multifocus

Part 1: Distractions

2 Main Types:

1. Internal
• Energy
• Thoughts
• Emotions
2. External
• People
• Enviroment

Part 2: Focus

Key overall Principle; that if you accomplish you don’t need any other principle to focus it happens naturally. Interest = Focus. When the brain is interested in something it will naturally focus on it.

2 Main Parts to Focus

1. Different ways to increase focus/gas.
• Interest Gas
• Emotional Gas
• Supplement Gas (like nitrous oxide)
2. Increasing duration of focus/size of your gas tank.
• Heart
• Strengths
• Diet
• Exercise

Part 3: Steering Your Focus

Knowing when to steer your focus helps you be more productive all day.

Key variables:

• when mental energy or focus levels are low or high
• when stress is low or high
• structure requirement for task (low structure, or high structure)

2 Main Ways:

1. Single Focusing
2. Multi-Focusing