2. Focus

Self Management Skills for Home Improvement

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Lifespan Seminar

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2. Focus on work / Blocking out distractions

• Eyes on the prize: remembering why I’m here
• Using whatever happens outside –
Good and Bad – as fuel for success
• Finding the solid ground under your feet
• Mental Imagery tools
– Eye of the storm
– Radio beacon
– Tightrope
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Pressure Points --
Direct doorways to access body’s neural
networks

• Release tension
• Relieve stress and worry
• Align the body with free flow of energy


Eyes on the prize
Remembering why I come here
• To pay my bills?
• To support my family?
• To enable me to do my art?
• What is my one word – Trigger? –

• Introductions

Focus on breath

• The oxygen of the whole world is available
to me
• Because I control my breath I control my
life
• I’ve got plenty of air - I’ve got plenty of
breath


Using what happens outside as fuel for success

If it’s Good – I come here as a Champ
If it’s Bad – I have an extra incentive to dig
in and improve my situation
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It’s easy to be happy at the peaks when the
stars are shining. But what do we do in the
dark valleys? – it is here that the true nature
of our character emerges

Blocking out distractions
Touch Triggers register new awareness in
the body –

• I am here for only six hours
• My time and energy are valuable
• I will stay focused during this time, so I can
make good money and go home proud


Mental Imagery tools

• Not every tool is right for every
situation

• But the more tools we have in our
Mental Toolbox, the more solutions
we have to life’s different challenges


Eye of the storm
• I’m dealing with forces much larger than
myself, over which I have no control
• When the hurricane is raging outside, the
eye of the storm is still
• I can’t control what is happening outside
but I can maintain my steady, even, and
effortless breath to feel calm inside of me
• Benefits: self-mastery / clear vision / peace

Radio beacon
• Broadcasting tower at a distance is emitting
radio signals in your direction
• You are the receiver
• Adjust your progress according to the
strength of signals you receive [choices]
• Benefits: sharper instincts / self-reliance /
growing self-confidence


Tightrope

• A mental tightrope stretches from where I am
right now to where I want to be
• Describe the dangers lying below, above, and
on either side of your tightrope

Mastery of the tightrope = Faith / Focus / Fun
• Benefits: balance / discipline / self-knowledge


Finding solid ground under my feet

Life is full of unknown things which I can’t control
• So where is my security?
• In my inner resources --
• In what I think
• In how I act
• In how I take care of my body
• In how I regulate my breath

Meditation on 3 practical tools to take with me

1. Empty or concentrate mind: to empty the
mind of thoughts, or concentrate on one thing,
for relaxation or attention
2. Think carefully: to think about something
calmly, seriously, and for some time
Meditation calms the mind,
which calms the body,
which enables the body restore its natural balance


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