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Prepare For Success
concentration with an unscheduled break and lose the focus you worked hard to gain in the
first place.
3. Choose An Appropriate Time
If you’re a morning person, choose the morning
for your hardest working sessions; if you’re a night
owl, choose the evening. You know yourself better
than anyone else, so choose the time when you’re
at the height of your brain power and the least
tired. It’ll be much more difficult to focus if you’re
battling fatigue.
4. Answer Your Internal Questions
Sometimes the distractions aren’t coming from
the external – they’re invading from within! We’ve
all sat down to work and had worries when other
internal distractions also invade our brains. ‘When
is she going to call me?’, ‘When am I going to get
a raise?’, ‘Will I get that interview?’. When these
distracting questions invade, accept them, then
push them aside with a logical answer:
‘When am I going to get a raise?’ Answer:
‘I don’t know the answer to that question
right now, so I’m going to focus on what I do
know right now.’
‘When is she going to call me?’ Answer:
‘Who knows? Who cares? I need to complete
this resume so I can get my application in
before I miss the closing date and I miss the
opportunity completely.’
‘Will I get that interview?’ Answer: It’s out of your hands now so don’t worry about it. If
you genuinely think that your application could have been better then bear that in mind
while working on the next one.
It seems silly but if you answer your own internal questions you’ll focus your mind back where
you want it to go. If necessary, write the worry down, solve it in a simple manner and move on.
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