Staying Focused

One of my area of improvement is Staying focused. I have been trying really hard to find out what was that in me that kept me from achieving most of my targets, aims and dreams. Thank God this survey by Cindy Chen called 360 Basic Peer Evaluation helped me identified this weakness that has kept me from achieving my dreams and aims for the last 10 years.

What is called Staying Focus? Yes I can admit that I am a multi-tasking sort of person and likes doing more than one job or thing at a time. Whilst I am effective and efficient in most times there are times I have lapses and go out of track.

One of the main error I make when I am not focusing is  "I make mistakes, miss subtle cues, fly off the handle when I shouldn't, or spell things wrong. For example I always spell "the" as teh. This is crazy. Because I am not focused I sometimes do not go back and recheck to ensure spellings are correct etc.

Another common thing I do is I have things to do list which I use to accomplish my tasks on daily basis but I do not put an effort most of the time to go back and revisit my list to mark off as complete and bring forward incomplete tasks to the next day to complete.

This drags me on and on and eventually I have found out why.

Thanks to Nadia Goodman for the TIPS on "How to Train Your Brain to Stay Focused"

It has helped me a lot to understand why some of my peers have told me that I need to stay focus even my previous employer supervisors.

This morning 31^st of March, when I was doing a rig run doing positive behaviour reinforcement with the drill crew members, my colleague the safety coordinator from a contractor decided that we drove down Golpu Road to head towards the camp site. As we were driving downhill I was doing cloud watching again and as I was doing so my mind was thinking of so many thinks.

Completion of monthly report, compiling my business profile and setting slides presentation for the upcoming seminar with Sparks* PNG Change makers and the imagination ran wild in my mind. Within me I asked myself, why I am not achieving all the things I have been thinking of. If I can manage another person's operation or an organization’s department, I can do that for myself. The question kept on coming and coming to me and the glimpse of a cloud caught my eye.

Again nature speaks to us in different ways and this time "the clouds were coming from different directions in small and big, all heading towards the same direction at a focal point.

The inner (middle circle was clear sky blue while the Cloud banks of small, white flakes moved slowly towards the center forming a round circle leaving the clear inner circle. While I was deep into asking myself the question, I could hear a silent voice whispering into my ears.... Bernice you need to stay focus.

You have so many good ideas, you are creative and innovative, and you have good leadership qualities and can drive and make things happen. But you need to refocus and stay in the direction just like the cloud bank you are watching.

Praise God, I have found the answer to my question. Searching through the internet again to find out more on how I can improve on my weakness in staying focus, a very good tip on staying focus by Nadia Goodman made sense to me

Glimpse of the cloud caught my eye sight.....

Read More: Nadia Goodman; http://www.entrepreneur.com/blog/225321#ixzz2P6wc9EpG

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