How 3 Simple Thoughts Can Produce Optimal Focus
The head demons circulate around and inside our brains constantly bringing worldly negative comments into ourselves. Embedding into neurons, negatives start to create patterns that hold us back from focusing on our work, our creation, and maybe even our calling. They dampen our thoughts, mood, and personalities. Every person faces these and the great focus masters and producers flip the demonic thoughts into fuel for the fire.
Take three strategies here from an NBA player, educational scientists, and the Wharton channel.
- Thank you for the motivation
Recently I saw a commercial with a basketball player who is a rising star. Apparently not everyone thinks he is that good. A reporter asks him something like “There are still a lot of doubters out there. What do you have to say to them?”
“Thank you for the motivation.” His response thanks the critics and he uses their doubt to continue his acceleration toward a great career.
No not all of us can jump three feet in the air and have the skill set to make baskets on a consistent basis, but we all have a mind that can be trained to turn seemingly negative into an immediate positive. Next time someone puts you under the table remember that doubters are just afraid of something themselves. They are afraid that they would not have the capacity to do what you are doing. Simply thank them and move on.
2. Fear of No
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Experts who study childhood personality and development estimate that we hear the word no ten times more than we here the word yes growing up. No is our cultured word. We expect it, yet we are afraid of it. The anticipation of the word keeps us from progress. No is prevalent. Accept the fact and be ready to succeed for the one Yes.
3. The fake you
Frequently, the Wharton Sirius XM channel highlights a point where a business owner, entrepreneur, artist, or speaker was afraid. Someone was afraid that he or she was not real. The fear that people may discover that the talent is not there or credentials may not fill our a seven page CV. So, every self starter feels this. Accept the feeling as a rite of passage that may mean, hey I am making this happen.
With these three simple thoughts conquered, you will have the ability to focus on your craft. Remember to fuel your motivation tank, see the yes, and understand that most of the successful people around you share similar fears. Your work and projects are able to to reach their full potential once you get conquer the thought demons.