Focus form is the skill of targeting your focus on a project that you will later he pleased to have done.
Focus Tips
Goal Slogans
Head Starts
Know what time it is. Sometimes you work on long term goals. Sometimes you just play. Decide what you intend to be doing in the next hour.
Plan Clipit
You use plans to link long-term goals to sub-goals.
Chop big jobs into joblets
See your product. Plan for a concrete product. The product may be notes about things your are reading. Or an outline of plans. It does not have to be a finished product. It does have to be something you can touch and see. Decide how you will know when the joblet is done. Decide what will satisfy you.
How can you find satisfaction
if you don’t know what you want?
Don't just talk to yourself. Imagine the product
The product might be:
A list of questions you want to answer.
A list of items you need to describe.
A list of steps you need to picture in your head.
Put the lists where they will remind you.
Head Staff: Mulling team
Set up cues. Distractions draw their power from cues. So do attractions. If you want to set your goals, you have to set the cues. If you let distractions set the cues, you let distractions set your goals. It is your choice.
A distraction is just an attraction to another part of your brain.
Start making the product at the beginning of the job. If it is a list, for example, get the paper out. Put a title on it. Use that as a cue. Put it right in front of you. Let it distract you from the distractions.
Distractions are in the here and now.
Long term goals are in the there and then.
Strengths behind focus
Determined
Focused
Goal Oriented
Goal Setter, Good
Self-directing
If you don't know what else to do, use Semi-Structured Brainstorming with this question: "How will I know when I have finished this job?"
Know what to expect.