Thursday 29 January 2015

Focus, Happiness and Life Priorities


Feel like you’re juggling too many projects and struggling to get your work finished? Feel that there aren’t enough hours in the day? And there’s just too much happening and it’s flat out exhausting?
Then there is definitely a need to look back and set your priorities right!
It happens a lot of times that one gets distracted and diverts their vital time into some other thing that captures one’s interest. Has this happened with you? If yes, then there’s definitely a need to focus on the work or pursue the work/activity where your focus and attention is undivided.
Successful people in life have always gone from one work to another after getting bored with their original work and fallen in love with a new one. The result: they never had the kind of success they could have enjoyed if they’d only stuck with and relentlessly pursued the work which they didn’t like and work which they could never focus on.
In my opinion, one should pursue the work that one loves and is passionate about. This would lead to undivided attention and focus.
Also, it necessary for you to always prioritize! If you keep all of your options open you haven’t made a commitment to anything. If you’re keeping your options open you’re not wholeheartedly focused on the business or the project that can help you fulfill your highest goals. One should always stick to what one is doing and what one can do best. It’s important to not be tempted by false opportunities. Focus on what is going to make you happy. Ask yourself – “What can I do to achieve greater success and help myself and people who I love?”
Apart from this, there are whole bunch of techniques to help one focus on what matters most. I’m sharing two that work for me.
Tomorrow’s List: End each day with a to-do-tomorrow list. Leave it on your desk and go home. It will be waiting for in the morning and you don’t have to spend time at home thinking about tomorrow.
Stop Doing List: The greatest leaders, like Warren Buffet, learnt to say “no” to almost everything not important. Not only they refuse to do anything that is not absolutely essential, they spend a lot of time looking around their companies for things that can be eliminated. The best leaders seem to have figured out ways to say “no” to the nonessential items. Now figure your.
Hope this article was useful. Please feel free to share your views with me by writing down a comment below.