Showing posts with label time management. Show all posts
Showing posts with label time management. Show all posts

Saturday, 5 January 2013

Top Ten New Year Resolutions


As a personal development researcher I am always interested to know what it is people most want to achieve.  At this time of year many people crystallize their hopes and dreams in New Year Resolutions.  I was therefore fascinated to see the list, published by the University of Scranton last month in the Journal of Clinical Psychology, of the top ten resolutions people made last year:

1    Lose Weight

2    Get Organized

3    Spend Less, Save More

4    Enjoy Life to the Fullest

5    Staying Fit and Healthy

6    Learn Something Exciting

7    Quit Smoking

8    Help Others in Their Dreams

9    Fall in Love

10   Spend More Time with Family


I imagine most of my readers can identify with at least one of these resolutions, if not more.  Even if you have not made any of them specific New Year Resolutions you would probably be happy setting several as  personal goals if you believed you could achieve them.

When you look carefully at this list it is quite obvious that several of these hopes and dreams belong together.  For example losing weight and quitting smoking are both very good goals for someone who wants to be fitter and healthier.

I think the list could be narrowed down to improvements in the following five areas, all of which are aspects of the field of personal development and success:

1  Finance

2  Health

3  Personal Relationships

4  Time Management

5  Dreams and Ambitions

Some of these areas are covered in the four free e-books I provide to all subscribers to my mailing list.  If you have not yet joined my list and received your free books please do so right now so you can move further forward in achieving your own goals.  You can do this simply by entering your name and e-mail address in the box just above on the right of this page.

I want to work with my readers to help them achieve improvements in all these five important areas.  Over the next few months I will cover different aspects of each of them, both in my blog here and also in the additional ideas I provide in e-mails to my subscribers.  Not all these ideas will be relevant to everyone, but you can be certain there will be some that are perfect for you and will help you achieve the personal goals you have set yourself.  Keep your eye on your mailbox for the idea that is perfect for you.


Sunday, 6 May 2012

Stay Focused

Great Ideas To Help Stay Critically Focused


Are you prone to distractions while performing important tasks? Do you feel like sometimes your mind is not under your control, that it has made choices of its own? It is because we live in a world full of distractions, distractions which can have numerous repercussions. Naturally, those who achieve greater productivity have an immense critical focus on their goals.

What follows is a guide to help you maintain critical focus on your goals, which will enable you to achieve more gratification and success in your endeavors.

What is critical focus?

Critical focus is extensively related to and with critical thinking. Critical thinking is one's ability or competence to question the assumed facts. Similarly, critical focus is one's ability to retain the concentration or convergence of their mind by eliminating every external interruption. Some of the major causes of these distractions are mental clutter, hyper-mind and head overdrive.

Are you focused objectively?

Many of us begin to work on a project with great expectations and focus. Then suddenly we disappear down the rabbit hole without any apparent reason. It happens because the mind does not like being restrained or made to follow regulations. It will resist nearly all your efforts to keep it on the track. Apparently, it loves its freedom more than anything else. It will find many ways to stop and disrupt you. In order to accomplish and prosper; you must prove to be stronger. The importance of time management should also be kept in mind as critical focus alone is useless without time management.

Let me explain with the help of an example - I have been approached by many students asking the same question over and over again: How to focus on studying? Students are likely to experience the phenomenon of lack of critical focus almost every day. Whenever they get their hand on the books and start reading, they experience aberration and divergence from their topic of study. In spite of the fact that some of them don't even have any external source of disturbance at all. It shows that their own mind is taking them away from the intended practice. This is what shows that they are not critically focused. So in order to get their minds back on the books they need to learn the methods of staying critically focused.

How to stay critically focused?

As explained in the preceding discourse, the combination of time management and critical focus is the ultimate recipe to success. The following list contains some of the many tips mandatory to staying critically focused on your objective:

• Get plenty of rest - You should sleep well and take care of your body. Don't try to force your body when it's demanding rest. Try not to sleep too much or become excessively lazy. An adequate amount of rest is needed to keep your mind sharp and focused.

• Eat proper diet - Some of the most essential elements necessary for a human brain to work efficiently are produced by the body only when the nutrition is adequate. So, take care of your meals and their timings. This will make a drastic change in your critical focus ability.

• Eliminate Distractions - Now that your body has all it needs for the brain to function properly; you'll have to work on the external factors affecting your mental focus. Even a minor distraction can make you lose your train of thought; which is very detrimental. So be careful to make your surrounding environment peaceful and organized.

• Picture your mind as a blank canvas - The most fundamental component of critical focus is to keep your mind clear of all the stress and tension. Your mind should be like a blank canvas when you're about to being working on your project. This enables you to build an ultimate focus on the objective.

• Practice focusing techniques - There are various mind focus techniques that help create critical focus on your ambitions. Some of them include yoga and meditation. These certainly can help and be an effective assistant of critical focus.

There are far too many help techniques that I haven't been able to express in this short article. My intention here is to simply to get you thinking of ways to stay critically focused on your objectives.


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