Harness “Conscious Focusing” as Your Superpower! - 088

If you could get yourself to focus when and where you need to AND could shift your state or feelings so you feel like doing things you’ve planned, when it’s time to take action, would having those skills change your life?  If you’re like other adults I’ve asked over the years, the answer is a resounding yes.  But how?

You are where your attention is.  What you focus on grows.  You are the meaning maker in your life.  Your feelings are a direct result of your thinking.  You create your own reality; we all do. 

So…are you ready to harness your focus before your dreams gently slip through your fingers or you run out of steam and just quit?  I hope so.

Today I’m talking about one aspect of embracing your Superpower and becoming the visionary of your life.  That’s right - developing your Foresight and Conscious Focusing so you can connect with your ideas about how things can be different for you; how they can actually improve.       

 

Developing your Executive Function Skills and shifting your limiting beliefs is the fastest and most effective way to overcome ADHD limitations, find focus, gain confidence, and newfound freedom in your life!

My mission is to put an end to the worldwide needless suffering of adults with ADHD and those with under-developed Executive Function Skills - whether from ADHD, chronic depression or anxiety, trauma, addictions, or chronic illnesses.  And, you don't need a formal diagnosis to know you need help developing these executive function skills in order to greatly reduce your suffering.

 

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  Some Favorite Quotes About Focus: 

• Alexander Bell said, “Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.”
• Will Durant said, “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
  
  
• Bruce Lee said, “The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.”
  
  
• Zig Ziglar said, “I don’t care how much power, brilliance or energy you have, if you don’t harness it and focus it on a specific target, and hold it there, you’re never going to accomplish as much as your ability warrants.”
  
  
• Steve Jobs said, “Focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex:  You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.  But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”
  
  
• Mike Hawkins said, “you don’t get results by focusing on results. You get results by focusing on the actions that produce results.”
  
  
• Jacqueline Leo said, “One look at an email can rob you of 15 minutes of focus. One call on your cell phone, one tweet, one instant message can destroy your schedule, forcing you to move meetings, or blow off really important things, like love and friendship.”
  
  
• Ralph Marston said, “Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So, choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful.  Your life is always moving toward something.”
  
  
• Oprah Winfrey said, “Energy is the essence of life. Every day you decide how you’re going to use it by knowing what you want and what it takes to reach that goal, and by maintaining focus.”
  
  
• John Carmack said, “Focus is a matter of deciding what things you’re not going to do.”
  
  
• Anthony D’Angelo said, “Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems.”
  
  
• Og Mandino said, “It is those who concentrate on but one things at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.”

All of these quotes say to me that because I am 100% responsible, 100% of the time for the outcomes in my life, it’s up to me to develop my abilities to consciously focus and have foresight so that I end up where I want to be in my life.  And because I am a solutions-focused person, I always ask myself “HOW” can I” rather than thinking that I can’t; that there’s no way forward.

 

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