How to Improve Your Focus to Achieve Greater Success in Anything You Do

by Sedona.com

Every school-age child has grand hopes and dreams for their future success. As we grow older, though, many of us do not achieve the success we envisioned as children.

Consider our relationships. In the United States, 43 percent of first marriages end in separation or divorce within 15 years, according to a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Or our finances. Household debt accounted for 113 percent of the average U.S. household’s discretionary income at the end of 2004.

Or our jobs. More than half of Americans – including over 55 percent of 45- to 54-year-olds and more than 60 percent of those 25 and under – are not satisfied with their jobs, according to a report by the Conference Board.

So what happened to all of our childhood dreams? Surely we all envisioned living in happy relationships, with plenty of money to go around, and jetting off to a fabulous job that we adore.

In a nutshell, we lost focus, and our dreams followed suit.

“Many of us scatter our energy to the wind,” says Hale Dwoskin, CEO and director of Sedona Training Associates.

“We pursue our goals as though we are digging for oil with a spoon in many shallow holes, and because it does not work we give up,” he says. “What we don’t realize is that if we focus our energy in a more targeted way, we go deeper and can get the oil we are looking for.”

Improving Your Focus for Success

What exactly is “focus” in relation to your success? It’s the ability to engage yourself in activities that have a purpose, and that provide you with positive feedback on progress toward your goal.

This sense of focus has also been described as “flow.”

According to the University of Pennsylvania’s Positive Psychology Center, “Engaging in an experience that produces ‘flow’ is so gratifying that people are willing to do it for its own sake, rather than for what they will get out of it. The activity is its own reward.”

It’s possible to feel “flow” and focus in every aspect of your personal and professional life. In fact, it’s not only possible, it’s necessary for you to move forward in your life. Only when you keep your focus will your inner abilities and talents pay off in the form of a happier, more gratifying life.

In more practical terms, you are likely harboring negative emotions that are standing in the way of your focus. Are you:

•    Afraid of failing?
•    Always procrastinating?
•    Resisting the steps necessary to move forward?
•    Engaging in self-sabotaging behaviors (like overeating or negative self-talk) that are lowering your self-esteem?
•    Allowing someone to control you?
•    Living your life to please others?

All of these things are disturbing your focus.

Letting go of this negativity is much easier than it sounds, especially when you learn The Sedona Method. The Method is scientifically proven to help you release negative thoughts and behaviors and, in their place, create a solid sense of focus.

“The Sedona Method helps you to release all of your inner obstacles to your goals, including the obstacle of scattering your energy and losing interest before you have achieved your desired outcome,” Dwoskin says.

“It also helps you to release the resistance to the actions required to achieve what you choose,” he continues.

Remember, even your deepest, most engrained feelings are really only on the surface, and you can choose to release them. When you do, you will begin to experience the achievements you’ve always dreamed of.

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