Shantell Hebert: "Focus! Focus! Focus!" (Great messages I received that I just want share.)Deborah C. Hardnett May 13 at 6:44am
Greetings Winners!
This shall be a great day for all of us! Did you ever think your "focus" needs to be focused? I know it sounds strange right? Yes... we are often told we need to stay focused, but the question still remains what do we and how do we focus?
I love what author Chuck Gallozi suggests. Here are 3 quick areas... we will review the others in the following weeks.
1. Focus on your choices- What you have become today is based on what you decided to focus on in the past, and what you will be tomorrow depends on what you choose to focus on today.
2. Focus on what's important to you- All you accomplish by trying to do everything is to get stressed out. And stress makes it impossible to focus. So, stop trying to do and be everything and focus on what's important to you.
3. Focus on the present moment - Focusing on the present moment is important because it is the only moment we have power. "Lose not yourself in a far off time, seize the moment that is thine." Johann Friedrich Von
Stay tuned to next week as we continue this series.
Success is Ours! Here's to 2010! The BEST year EVER!
Deborah C. Hardnett June 3 at 8:10am
Greetings Winners!
A couple of weeks ago we started a 16 Step Series on Focus by author Chuck Gallozzi . Here are steps 4 through 6 as promised. Enjoy! :-)
Step 4
FOCUS ON THE PRESENT MOMENT. We are always aware that we are alive, but by not focusing on that fact, we fail to take advantage of it. Focusing on the present moment is important because it is the only moment we have power.
Step 5
FOCUS ON LIFE. How many of us quickly walk to our destination, oblivious to leaves and flower petals blown about by the wind? Why is it we see the litter, but not the grass waving to us? Why do we hear the clamor of traffic, but not the songs of birds? Everyone is looking, but few are seeing. Everyone is hearing, but few are listening. As Eddie Cantor said, "Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going too fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."
Step 6
FOCUS ON YOUR STRENGTHS. It is good to be aware of our weaknesses and work on self- improvement. But we should spend more time focused on our strengths than our weaknesses, for it is our strengths that will lead us to success. In the long run, what we can't do is unimportant, it is what we can do that defines us and offers us the opportunity to shine.
7. FOCUS ON THE POSITIVE. Successful people focus on what they want, not what they don't want. There's a good reason for that, and it is pointed out by the extraordinary motivational speaker,W Mitchell. Here's what he said, "What I focus on in life is what I get. And if I concentrate on how bad I am or how wrong I am or how inadequate I am, if I concentrate on what I can't do and how there's not enough time in which to do it, isn't that what I get every time? And when I think about how powerful I am, and when I think about what I have left to contribute, and when I think about the difference I can make on this planet, then that's what I get. You see, I recognize that it's not what happens to you; it's what you do about it."
8. FOCUS ON OPPORTUNITIES. Like W. Mitchell, we need to focus on opportunities. That is, we need to look for them, for we find what we look for. Someone far wiser than I reached the same conclusion, for the great Greek playwright, Sophocles (496~406 BC), wrote, "Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected." In more modern times we find Henry David Thoreau (1817~1862) wrote something similar, "Only that day dawns to which we are awake. What we find depends on what we look for."
9. FOCUS ON YOUR POTENTIAL. If we wish to unlock our potential, all we need do is act like the person we want to become, for "Act the part and you will become the part" (William James). Just as famous as the words of William James are the words of Henry David Thoreau; mainly, "If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."
Stay tuned in the coming weeks for the remaining steps.
Success is Ours! Here's to 2010! The BEST Year EVER!
Warmest Regards,
Deborah Hardnett
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Excellent advice!
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