Videos: Mindfulness - How To Actually Practice Mindfulness & Conquer Your Emotions :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01Pfs3VuizM Daniel Goleman on Focus: The Secret to High Performance and Fulfilment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTfYv3IEOqM&t=1472s Articles: Dr. Richard Reoch : http://richardreoch.info/mindful-leadership-resources/ Self-evaluate yourself: Self-assessment 1: https://www.onlineassessmenttool.com/how-is-your-focus/assessment-56436 Self-assessment 2: https://www.onlineassessmenttool.com/how-do-you-help-yourself-focusing/assessment-56437 Self-assessment 3 (NewYorkTimes): http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/07/technology/20100607-task-switching-demo.html

2. You will :
Know more about yourself
Lead yourself properly
Focus effectively
Increase your creative
productivity

3. How?

4. Well,
let me tell you
something…

6. The chief characteristic of the
modern era
is

7. Milan
Kundera
« It is the form of exstasy that
technology has bestowed upon modern
man. »

8. « Addicted to speed, we demand it even
when we can’t possibly go faster. »
James Gleick

9. Because of that, humans thought
about an effective way to work; they
started multi-tasking

10. As a consequence …

11. 53%
Waste at least one hour a day due to
all types of distractions

12. 45%
Of employees work only 15minutes or
less without getting interupted

13. 25%Have no time for deep or creative thinking

14. Isn’t multi-
tasking the
key?

15. LOL!

16. Cognitive multi-tasking
DOES NOT
exist

17. Our brain can process only one task
at a time
Our brain gives us the impression
that it can process many tasks at the
same time while in fact
it switches OFF an
activity and ON
another

18. Taking the nature of
our brain into
consideration, the
key would be …

19. Focusing
Your
Attention
Into one specific task at a time

20. Attention
is basically to direct your senses into a specific thing
Attentional control
refers to an individual’s cpaacity to choose what they
pay attention to and what they ignore

21. « The faculty of voluntarily bringing back a
wandering attention, over and over again, is
the very root of judgment, character, and will.
No one is [the master of himself] if he have it
not. »
William James

22. What if you can’t
simply focus?

23. Apart from multi-tasking other factors
may affect your concentration:
Stress
Information overload
Fatigue
Other physical factors

24. And don’t forget
…

26. Also …

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28. D O N ’ T F O R G E T T H E
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29. COOOOL !!