{"id":353,"date":"2013-12-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/jeremusic\/focusing-your-attention-intensely-for-shorter-periods-of-time-can-make-you-more-efficient\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T18:01:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T18:01:53","slug":"focusing-your-attention-intensely-for-shorter-periods-of-time-can-make-you-more-efficient","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/jeremusic\/focusing-your-attention-intensely-for-shorter-periods-of-time-can-make-you-more-efficient\/","title":{"rendered":"Focusing your attention intensely for shorter periods of time can make you more efficient."},"content":{"rendered":"

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FOCUS YOUR ATTENTION<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0Learning the art of fully focusing yor attention, completely, without allowing any distractions can make you become a great deal more efficient in doing what you’re doing.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We’ve all seen this, one person appears to easily fully focus ALL his or her attention to a particular task and gets it accomplished rapidly. Another person equally willing but less focused begins the task, then gets a little stuck, instead of following through to get it done, goes of to ‘handle’ the problem but in actual fact is doing something else. Later comes back to carry on with the task and half an hour goes by and they discover that they began with the wrong piece and have to undo half of what was done to put it back in the right order.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You have seen this kind of activity?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Some of you, like me, have also been guilty of functioning in this way.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What’s the solution?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It’s very simple really. So simple in fact that most people don’t understand it when they learn it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The task is :“TO DO WHAT YOU ARE DOING, WHEN YOU’RE DOING IT”<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This means keeping yourself alert for any deviation from the ORIGINAL INTENDED ACTION.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This of course presumes that you had a clear idea of what you intended to do, which may not be the case.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It is very worthwhile to clearly define exactly what it is you are intending to accomplish, and DO ONLY THAT.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

How many of us have woken up on a Sunday morning full of all the great ideas taht we wanted to accomplish that day. Then when we decided to repair the porch and got to using the drill which didn’t work so we start taking the drill apart, but it’s missing a contact brush. So\u00a0we go to town to buy one and when were there we pick up a bargain set of shelves. We get happily home with our new pruchase and get it all out as it’ll only take ten minutes to put up (or so it says on the instructions).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We put it together and the fifth screw breaks in the hole, so we say, “Oh that’s no problem I’ll just drill a hole beside it and put in another one”.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And then we realise that the drill doesn’t work, so there’s no way to make the hole and now we have an unrepaired\u00a0porch and a half built set of shelves that’ll stay propped against\u00a0the wall until Wednesday when you’ve got time to pick up the part ordered from the shop……<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I hope this humorous episode has helped bring your attention to the problem of easily being distracted.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It’s not a skill that is so easily acquired, but if you focus your attention more on focusing your attention,(!) \u00a0in time you’ll get better at asking, “IS what I’m doing right this second directly contributing to the exact action I have set to accomplish?<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

When we get good at this, our family and friends will watch us in awe as we just plough through eight different things before elevenses!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This is what a “satisfying life” is built on, and now that I have shared this with you I’m done here for right now, so I’ll click ‘publish’ and I’ll catch you all tomorrow!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Flourish and Prosper!\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Jeremy Feldmesser AKA Jeremusic<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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FOCUS YOUR ATTENTION \u00a0Learning the art of fully focusing yor attention, completely, without allowing any distractions can make you become a great deal more efficient in doing what you’re doing. We’ve all seen this, one person appears to easily fully focus ALL his or her attention to a particular task and gets it accomplished rapidly. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/jeremusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/jeremusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/jeremusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/jeremusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/jeremusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/jeremusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":607,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/jeremusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/jeremusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/jeremusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/jeremusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}