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Maintaining more focus
“My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things.”
- Bill Gates
As an admitted attention deficit and attraction-to-distraction person, I can honestly say that keeping focus while completing tasks is one of my biggest struggles in my daily affairs. I do not feel I am driven to distraction as much as I willingly drive there while abandoning whatever it is I was working on. Then, as the distractions fade, I’m left wondering where the time went and what it was I was actually working on in the first place. I have been recently developing more ways to address and harness my peripherally challenged attention span.
I recently wrote about designing our environment in order to prevent distractions and be more productive, but I also know that removing distractions is only a sliver of the equation to keeping our focus and attention on the task at hand. I have also been incorporating other prevention measures like mindfulness and meditation. Surprisingly enough, I am able to focus more on what I am doing when I remind myself what I am doing and why it is a priority for me to finish, before focusing my energy on something else.
I start repeating affirmations to myself to help me stay focused on my personal and professional commitments. As part of designing a more productive environment, I also placed motivational…
