It only takes a few minutes to experience the difference between what it feels like to be focused and being distracted – I’ve been enabling people to focus for over fifteen years and I know that it works. And each Monday and Wednesday, my personal development online readers get simple tips and tricks on how to focus their mind – and it’s free! And every day, people all over the world sign up to my online workshops to learn exactly the same thing. So, what is focus all about?
Firstly, you need to understand that focus doesn’t come naturally. The normal adult mind is either thinking about the past or worrying about the future. The worry you know about – research shows that the majority of people are worried about not having any money, worried about how their children are turning out, worried about work, worried about growing old. For each stage of life there is a set of worries. And all this worry is focused on things that didn’t happen yet – and, more to the point, things that we actually don’t want to happen! What kind of idiot wastes their energy on stuff that they don’t want to happen? A normal idiot!
Whilst we are all conscious of worry, we’re not aware that our subconscious mind is focused on the past and it’s because of the past that we worry about the future! We learned the things that we don’t like about ourselves when we were young – and our subconscious mind continues to play the same old broken record. And you never know that this is happening, so you’ve never realized that you could do something about the problem.
What you do need to realize is that you don’t have to do anything to sort things out if you learn to focus your mind on the here and now. Yeah, that’s what focus is – a now thing. This is where you live your life, this is when you could do your very best if you were focused, now is the only time and place that you can be, you have no choice. The choice you have, however, is whether you’ll bother to turn up for your life or not. Once you decide to turn up, everything will be transformed.
OK then, what do you have to do to focus? Well, here’s your first training session, right here, right now. Sit down somewhere where you won’t be disturbed for five minutes. When you’ve got comfortable, close your eyes and do nothing except hear. You’re thoughts will try to distract you but, when this happens, just latch onto the next sound that comes your way. When you try something as simple as this, you teach your mind to pay attention to what is going on in just this moment – and that is what focus is.
And even if you just started with a couple minutes of sitting and listening, you’ll discover something very important – the real world has nothing to do with the crap in your head that you’ve been paying all of your attention to.
