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    Focus Booster
    Focus Booster
    Focus Booster
    Ebook67 pages57 minutes

    Focus Booster

    By Jim Woods and Erik Fisher

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    About this ebook

    Calling the tired, the burnt out and the overwhelmed.
    Wouldn't it be great to have more clarity? It's time to feel good again; to feel like yourself again. Enough running in circles and filling up to-do lists. It's time to make better decisions. It's time to live a better life.

    Focus Booster features:
    1) Practical tips to help you improve your focus today.
    2) Proven strategies to help you make the most of your time.
    3) Techniques to set boundaries without feeling like a robot.
    4) Simple energy boosters to help you feel better.
    5) Practical ways to make better decisions without stressing yourself out.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJim Woods
    Release dateOct 4, 2014
    ISBN9781310075193
    Focus Booster
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    Jim Woods

    Jim Woods is the co-author of two bestselling books: Ready Aim Fire and Focus Booster. He is a productivity enthusiast and loves helping others reach their goals and live great lives. When not writing, you can likely find Jim at a coffee shop curled up with his Mac watching Youtube videos or reading a book.

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    Focus Booster - Jim Woods

    Defining Focus

    Focus is the center of interest or activity.

    Focus is the bullseye you aim toward.

    Focus is what happens when you direct your attention toward a specific purpose.

    We all know how to focus, but we often choose not to. Focus requires commitment. Focus requires effort; it's not quick or easy. When you decide to focus on the task at hand, you must be intentional and proactive.

    For example, consider a photographer sitting in the bitter cold, waiting for sunrise to take pictures. There's no question as to the photographer's goal: to take as many great shots as possible.

    When you choose to focus, you make the most of the opportunities within your grasp today. Taking things as they come toward you is the opposite of focus. It is a waste of time worrying about anything except for the task at hand. Comparing to the past can become a crutch, where we often look at small flashbacks of what happened and not the entire picture.

    Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games. — Babe Ruth

    Move forward. What you did yesterday is what you did yesterday. Stop dwelling in the past. Be intentional and proactive about today.

    Doing things the same way because that's how they've always been done is not an acceptable answer. The Internet has completely changed everything: how we watch television, how we communicate with others, and how businesses are run. The old rules are gone.

    Improving your focus is one of the biggest challenges you'll ever face, but you're up for it.

    Let's go.

    Focus on Yourself

    No one wakes up one day with perfect, laser-like focus. That kind of focus requires a slow grind. Each day you travel further down the path on this journey of a million miles. As you intentionally move forward, you'll continue to improve.

    Resist the instinct to compare yourself to others and their successes (and even their failures). Put the blinders up and don't worry about others. Otherwise, you're bound to come down with analysis paralysis and not finish your own work. Other people can date the Kardashians, make millions of dollars, or even eat more bacon than you—it doesn't matter. Your work must take priority over being social, or you will use your best energy chatting it up around the real or cyber water cooler. While some level of comparison is unavoidable because you're human, a huge difference exists between learning from others and fixating on what others do.

    Watching others do their work, or reap rewards from their work, is easier than doing anything lasting yourself. Such comparison can extend to a fear of missing out (FOMO). Fear can easily become a roadblock if you're not deliberate with your intentions.

    Go pour your heart into something and savor every moment. You can't divide your focus into countless number of segments and still perform at a high level. It's impossible.

    When you focus on being yourself and put in the hard work required, the rest will take care of itself.

    Focus on Your Strengths

    Okay, so where do you start?

    Start with your strengths.

    Five Guys doesn't sell chicken.

    Chick-fil-A doesn't sell burgers.

    Go to your strengths and you'll find clarity.

    Very rarely does branching out from your core competencies—your strengths—end well.

    Directly copying what works for someone else rarely leads to success. For every iPod success story, there are many more products like the Zune. Don't be a trend chaser. Much more goes into success than simply following a formula.

    You know what your strengths are. You know what you do well. If you're not sure, it's time to become a student of yourself. As you learn, you'll grow and discover clarity. In other words, you must learn the art of reflection to grow and mature.

    There is only one you out there. You have unique experiences, strengths, and weaknesses. You are also

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