Increase productivity, and you create more freedom. After all, the more effectively and efficiently you complete your personal or professional to-do list each day or week, the more free time you have for the things you enjoy. All that takes is focused attention, right? Increased productivity isn’t something only those in the […]
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Circumstances can prove quite distracting, making it feel difficult to focus or be productive. However, high performers know how to navigate distracting circumstances, and anyone can develop the habits that help them do so. Distracting circumstances run the gamut, from political news to weather-related disasters to family or work-related conflicts. Whatever the situation, it behooves
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Sometimes, life “lifing” seems to demand all your attention. During such periods, it’s easy to feel distracted, overwhelmed, and resistant to doing things you want or need to do. Turning your attention away from whatever circumstances surround you feels almost impossible. At times like these, life gets in the way of your life’s work. It
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“Intention” is a powerful word. When you intend something, you determine where you focus your attention. Become an intentional person, and your actions align with your intention. That’s when you create the results you desire. Your intention is the direction in which you aim. Consider an archer who sets up a target with a bull’s
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We have officially entered the holiday season. Maybe that fact fills you with joy. But, if not, then it likely makes you anxious. After all, the holidays can be filled with negative feelings and complicated family dynamics. That’s why many people search for ways to manage their emotions during the holidays. If you can just
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It’s been four decades since I read about the concept of “vaporizing clouds” in Richard Bach’s book, Illusions, The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah. Donald Shimoda teaches Bach to make clouds disappear or appear using the power of the mind. Indeed, our thoughts are creative. What you focus on expands. Stop placing your attention on
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Learning is super important. But if you get stuck in learning, you might never start doing. You see, learning can become a distraction to doing. It’s still a good thing, and you continually want to educate yourself on whatever serves you best. But you don’t want that education to get in the way of taking
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Have you ever lost a day? You now what I mean…you had plans. You woke up in the morning and had things you were going to do…and then the day ended, and you had nothing to show for it. Maybe you even blocked time on your schedule for your priorities, responsibilities, and obligations. Your schedule
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Do you know what you need? What’s necessary for you right now? I was on a call the other day with another coach. He said he needed a certain number of clients—or a specific amount of money—to come into his business from coaching in the next two weeks. If he couldn’t make that happen, he
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It’s easy to get bogged down in problems. We focus on them, and as we see a solution, they seem to get bigger and more difficult. There’s another way to tackle problems. First, see problems as challenges or opportunities. Don’t make them something negative. In fact, problems are just situations we judge as negative. You
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You can’t manage time. It’s an unchanging and unalterable aspect of life. If you want “more time,” you must manage your attention. In other words, you have to become conscious of where you focus your mind during any given period of time. When you focus your attention, you achieve your goals more easily. You have
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Here in Northern California it does not feel like spring. It’s 40 degrees and rainy. However, it’s April and the lilies and daffodils are blooming, so I know spring has sprung. So, it’s appropriate that the next seder symbol I’m going to look at is karpas, the green vegetables that remind the seder participants that
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