The Focus

 

The Focus

Focus Is the Gateway to Business Success. Simply put, focus involves the ability to pay attention to things that will help and avoid distractions that will hurt your work efforts. For example, to finish a report, you need to focus on the relevant information and analyses that will comprise the report.

You Can’t Think without Focus. Focus is so important because it is the gateway to all thinking: perception, memory, learning, reasoning, problem solving, and decision making. Without good focus, all aspects of your ability to think will suffer. Without focus, you won’t be as effective in your work because if you’re not concentrating on the right things or are distracted, you won’t be capable of getting your work done.

You also won’t be maximally efficient without good focus because, every time your mind wanders away from your work, you are wasting time. Finally, you won’t be as productive as you can because your work output will not be of the highest quality and it will take you longer to do it.

Here’s a simple reality: if you can’t focus effectively, you can’t think effectively. And if you can’t think effectively, you definitely can’t produce the quality of work necessary to be successful. From this perspective, it’s not difficult to see why focus is such an essential tool for business success.

So, how do you focus on multitasking, a situation where, by its own definition, several things are happening at once? Well, the key to successfull focus is attention. When several things are happening simultaneously, you need to focus on only one thing at a time. This doesn't mean you bring one task to full completion before you start another. Rather you just spend enough given time on a task to take to next level of development and then turn your attention to another task. In this way, each task get moved along in turn, and all are successfully completed in time.