THE POWER OF FOCUS

LESSON #2.4

FOCUS .A focused mind can never be deterred from its goal. Never let external negative forces discourage you from your dream or destiny. Some people will always be there to discourage you and mock your ideas, but stay firm and do not give in to their criticism. Having focus is the most important dream next to a vision. The best ways to stay focused are;

·        To enhance your concentration and powers of focus, count your steps when you walk. This is a particularly strong technique. Take six steps while taking a long inhale, hold your breath for another six steps, and then exhale for six steps. If six steps are too long for the breaths, do whatever you feel comfortable with. You will feel very alert, refreshed, internally quiet and centered after this exercise. So many people allow their minds to be filled with mental chatter. All peak performers appreciate the power of a quiet, clear mind which will concentrate steadily on all important tasks. By Robin S. Sharma.

 

·        Learn to meditate effectively. The mind is naturally a very noisy machine which wants to move from one subject to another like an unchained monkey. One must learn to restrain and discipline it if one is to achieve anything of substance and to be peaceful. Meditation for twenty minutes in the morning and twenty minutes in the evening will certainly provide you with exceptional results if regularly practiced for six months. Learned sages of the East have been advancing the many benefits of meditation for over 5000 years. By Robin S. Sharma.

 

·        That which any person who has walked this Earth has achieved you can achieve with the right mental attitude, perseverance and industry. Limiting thoughts and weak mental images must be banished. One's focus must be on the attainment of goals that are truly important. By Robin S. Sharma.

DO YOU HAVE A GOAL IN LIFE?

LESSON #2.3

GOAL.

 

 A goal is a target you hope to achieve especially when much time and effort will be needed to have a task completed. Set goals in your life. Short term goals; daily, weekly goals. Long time goals monthly, yearly goals. 

·        Nothing will motivate you to accomplish a task unless you have a goal.

·        Set aside every Sunday evening for yourself and be strongly disciplined with this habit. Use this period to plan your week, visualize your encounters and what you want to achieve, to read new materials and inspirational books, to listen to soft soothing music and to simply relax. This habit will serve as your anchor to keep you focused, motivated and effective throughout the coming week. By Robin S. Sharma.

 

·        Read the book Goals by Brian Tracy.

DO YOU HAVE A VISION?

LESSON #2.2

VISION.  

Your vision of a future situation for society is what you imagine or hope it would be like. Your vision is conceived from your dream. Focus on your vision and ACT on it. Your vision should be a LEGACY. Without vision your life is a ship without a captain heading for distraction.

·        Proverbs 29:18. Where there is no vision, the people perish but he that keepeth the law, happy is he. (the law means the word of God)

·        Throughout the day we all get inspiration and excellent ideas. Keep a set of cards (the size of business cards; available at most stationary stores) in your wallet along with a pencil to jot down these insights. When you get home, put the ideas in a central place such as a coil notepad and review them from time to time. As noted by Oliver Wendell Holmes: "Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." By Robin S. Sharma.

·        “Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside awakes." --Carl Gustav Jung

IT STARTS FROM THE MIND

LESSON #2

MENTAL ATTITUDE

This lesson is going to be broad and will have sub-lessons, because it is the MOST IMPORTANT topic. Everything you do in life action, reaction, success, failure is all determined by your mental attitude.

The mind in the MOST IMPORTANT ASSET of all the human organs. Make the best use of it. BREAK FREE from what society dictates you to be. Wealthy people around the world are wealthy because they broke away from the norm e.g. Billy Gates. To be employed doesn’t necessarily mean to be well off, or to have financial freedom. Start thinking outside the box.

·        Stop feeling sorry for yourself (for those who are unemployed) .Start thinking of solutions and Ideas for a break through. Use the power of imagination and create your own business venture.

·        Just because you came from a poor background it doesn’t dictate your destiny. Most tycoons started from rugs-to-riches.

·         Break free from the dictation of the limited thinkers: SCHOOL-EDUCATION-SEEK JOB-STABILITY instead apply this; SCHOOL- EDUCATION-CREATE JOB-STABILITY. “There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity."--Douglas MacArthur

·        You’re destined to be an important person in the world, an entrepreneur, a job maker, an inventor. Start believing in yourself.

·        You can never change your destiny until you change your MENTAL ATTITUDE.

·        Have a POSITIVE MENTAL ATTITUDE. Remember the overriding law of nature: positive overcomes the negative.

·         Use the rubber band method to condition your mind to focus solely on the most positive elements in your life. Place a rubber band around your wrist. Each time a negative, energy sapping thought enters your mind, snap the rubber band. Through the power of conditioning, your mind will associate pain with negative thinking and you will soon possess a strongly positive mindset By Robin S. Sharma.

·        When a negative thought comes to your mind, immediately replace it with one that is positive. Positive always dominates over the negative and your mind has to be conditioned to think only the best thoughts. Negative thinking is a conditioned process whereby the negative patterns are established over and over. Rid yourself of any limitations and become a powerful positive thinker. By Robin S. Sharma.