Being “fully focused on today “means having your attention, thoughts and feelings all fixed on the task at hand.
If you are speaking to somebody, then your attention and energy is focused on him or her and what he or she is saying. If you are doing a task, then your entire being is focused on the task. It’s not about dwelling on the past or future.
This is a rather different way for people to function. Often people feel that they should be doing many things at the same time.
Multitasking has been considered a healthy skill. In fact, for some time, people were encouraged to multitask because the theme of the day was to do more with less (but we’ll provide you with the information technology so you can do it all the time).
Unfortunately, many people have found that multitasking stressful, exhausting and typically unproductive.
Some obvious signs of not being fully focused are:
- Reading but then realising that you can’t remember a good portion of what you read;
- Speaking with someone but then you notice you have been thinking of something else and don’t know what the conversation is about.
- Starting one task and then switching to another without finishing the first one.
When we are overloaded, preoccupied or emotionally upset we tend to revert to our head and don’t experience the present moment.
Thus we don’t give the situation at hand our best attention and effort, and deprive ourselves of the satisfaction of accomplishment.
Aim to be fully present with everything you do. It is a fundamental shift from doing five things simultaneously to doing five things in sequence
Instead of giving 20% of your attention to five things at once, you give 100% of your attention to five things in a row.
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