Pre-work
Focus and Ease
Activity
This is a fifteen-minute activity that will greatly increase your success and ease.
Our objective with this activity is to begin to get ourselves in our most productive frame-of-mind. To do so this activity will help us to clear out non-productive thoughts and mental distractions allowing us to focus our best and achieve our peak productivity.
“Getting in the zone”.
Choose a quiet place where you will not be disturbed.
Close your eyes. Our goal here is to pre-pave our day or quiet our mind.
Depending on how active your thoughts are at the moments, you want to, with your eyes closed, begin by focus on your breath. As you breath in and out focus your attention on your breath. When a thought pulls your attention away, refocus on your breath. Continue to do this until your mind is quiet.
At this point, for some it is easier to begin to imagine what their most successful, peaceful, and productive day would look like. Who is doing what, where, producing what results. Watch and build your desired day in your mind.
If your mind is too active or you have thoughts that have been demanding your attention it may be better to instead of imaging your desired day, keep your focus on your breathing. Keep pulling your attention back to your breathing the best you can for 15 minutes. Relax and quiet your mind.
Based on what’s going on in your life now creating the movie in your mind of your desired day may be easier for you or just quieting your mind may be easier for you. When you first begin to employ this focusing technique either or both may be challenging. However, as you do it for a few days it will get easier and easier, increasing your focus and easing your mind.
Do this every morning before you begin work for 15 minutes.
My preferred (“Get into the Zone”) method comes from the work of Jose Silva and his revolutionary book and renowned course “Mind Control”.
Step 1: Sit somewhere quiet and comfortable
Step 2: Stare at a spot on the wall in front of you looking slightly up.
Step 3: Relax your body starting with your feet all the way to your head.
Step 4: When your eyes lids get heavy let your eyes close.
Step 5: Start at 100 and slowly count backwards. A couple of seconds between numbers.
Step 6: Keeping your eyes closed and counting backwards slowly, just focus on the numbers and nothing else.
Step 7: Do this for 15 minutes
For some, using this guided meditation video providing music and guided relaxation is helpful.
