How To Create Perfect Focus And Direction Using A Simple Visual Map

Many people ask me during the many training courses I give how they can concentrate better on what they do. They are distracted by the many activities and objects around them. What many people also find very disturbing is the lack of focus they have when doing their job. Where are they going in life? How can they increase focus on what they do on a daily basis. That is what I want to tell you more about in this article.

You can be a person with perfect concentration yet continue to move in circles. You simply do what you are asked and you end up doing the same things on a daily basis. For some that is a good way of living. Most other people want to have, do and be more than that! They lack direction and focus in their lives.

A visual map is a wonderful tool that helps you to focus much better on what you need to do in order to move forward in life at the same time. The benefit of using a visual map is that it also helps you to create direction in your life. And it does it all in one, simple visual overview. Here is how you do this:

Step 1: Understand where you want to go

This sounds easy, right? Of course you know where you want to go... Or don't you? The easiest way of finding where you want to go is answering the question: What major goal do I want to accomplish in my life?

Put this life destination at the top of your paper, or visual overview.

Step 2: Determine the steps needed to reach your goal

From that life changing goal, you move backward in time... until you reach the present. What are the steps you have to take? Identify exactly what you need to do.

Write all the steps below the destination. The closer they are in time, the closer the steps are in the visual overview. You end with the most current task somewhere near the bottom of the page.

Step 3: Do what you have to do

Now comes the most difficult part, the part that has to deal with focus. You already know what you have to do. Now you have to do it. You decide, consciously, what you have to do. You look at your list of goals and tasks and pick the one that you can work on right now and you start working on it.

While working on the map, you identify the things that disrupt your focus. Write these next to the task in your visual map. You do this because it helps you to identify all the objects, people and other things that break your focus. Once you know them, you can either remove them from your environment or 'train' them to never disturb you ever again.

Every time you feel you are not doing what you are supposed to do, you have a look at your visual map. This is your road map in life! Any stalling in the present stops the future from become a reality. You know it is something you can accomplish, the only thing that holds you back is your determination.

What do you choose to focus on now you know this?

By: Arjen Ter Hoeve

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