The Amazing Power of Focus

By Rhonda Campbell
Romans 12:2 says, “Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Buddha said, “All that we are is the result of what we have thought.” Your mind is powerful, perhaps more powerful than you realize. Have you ever stopped to consider what you could achieve if you focused your thoughts on a single purpose or goal?

Being that it generally takes 30 days of consistent thought or behavior to form a habit (or to train your mind to automatically do something without consciously thinking about it) it can only help if you clearly identified your business goals now and started focusing on steps you’re going to take to bring those goals to fruition. You don’t have to write down complex goals. Just get an outline of your goals on paper.

I know.  I know.  You’ve heard a lot about goal setting over the last several years and you’re ready to give up on it, because you still haven’t gotten the business results you wanted. However, if you take a closer look at your goals, your thoughts patterns and the numbers of distractions you let sidetrack you, it might become clear to you how you might be getting in your own way.

To focus your thoughts and achieve your goals, keep your goals short. For example, for a financial goal, you could write, “Your goal is to earn at least $10,000 this month.” Next, place your written goal in an area (e.g. on the wall above your office desk) where you will easily see it every day. This helps your focus to move down into your subconscious mind. An advantage of focusing on a goal until it gets into your subconscious is that, once your goal gets into your subconscious mind, you can start working to reach your goal 24/7, even while you’re sleeping.

Also, to strengthen your focus, you can imagine yourself receiving checks after customers order your products and services. Doing so reinforces your goal on your subconscious mind. After this happens, don’t be surprised if you start having dreams about your goals. This is a sign that your subconscious got the message and is working on the goals.

Pay attention to your dreams. They might give you clues regarding steps you can take to move forward with your goals. For example, you might dream about a local television host. This could be a way your subconscious mind is trying to direct you to schedule an interview with the host to talk about your upcoming product launch.

As you go after your goal, be aware of distractions (e.g. financial worries, relationship concerns) your mind creates that weren’t there before. This may be a way that a part of your mind is resisting progress, working to shift your focus off your goal onto whatever has seemingly just “popped up out of nowhere.” Brush these distractions aside. In other words, don’t focus on distracting comments or events. Instead, focus on your goal. Train your mind to focus, because it’s what you think about most that’s going to show up in your life.

Strategies and actions you can take to help your mind focus include:

Meditating for 5 to 10 minutes a day – You can do this by sitting still with your feet flat on the floor and breathing deeply and slowly. Listen to yourself breath and let any thoughts that pass through your mind just flat through like clouds moving across the sky. Don’t focus on the thoughts; just let them float by.

Expressing appreciation that your goal is already (right now) fulfilled; it’s just has to take physical shape, that’s all which your focus is going to help it do

Enjoying a walk or jog outside for an hour a day. Natural light does wonders for the human system.

Listening to positive conversation, music, etc. daily

Completing daily tasks on time, definitely when you say you will

Thanking others for any and all support they offer you

Being open to changing your habits and routines (answers to goal requests sometimes come in the form of unexpected events)

Supporting others – All living beings are connected. As you help others, you help yourself.

Regularly doing what you love demonstrates that you appreciate yourself. Use this energy to continue to move forward

Focus on what you want, what causes you to experience and feel joy, not on what others have.

As a tip, try to focus on one goal at a time. You have enough different events happening in your life everyday already. Don’t load your mind with a myriad of goals as this can cause you to water down the impact of focus. Also make sure that you truly want the goal as it may take a period of ongoing focus before the goal materializes. But if you want the goal enough, you won’t mind putting in the thought work.