Abundance consciousness = focus, focus, focus

Principle 5. Focus, Focus, Focus

“The person who chases two rabbits, catches neither.”
~ Confucius

This is a follow-up from the last point. While it is necessary to acquire multiple skill sets, to develop those skills to any great depth requires focus and commitment. Focus is essential for efficient processing of new information and skill development.

To become effective and be able to apply a relatively good level of skill, you need to give it a solid 20 hours of your time and attention. Any less than that and it will not be wired into your system well enough.

A period of “intensive” learning works well, involving focus on only one thing for one solid week, with few distractions. Or, try a solid hit of it followed by regular periods of practice and re-affirmation of the new skill as the weeks flow by.

As a general rule of thumb, you have to give a new skill, or a new field of knowledge at least 20 hours of focus to get yourself to a level where it can be valuable.

I have found meditation to be the tool and practice that has best helped me develop my ability to focus. Meditation trains your brain and attention to rest on one point (it can be the breath, the tip of the nose, etc.) for extended periods of time. This practice reduces “scatterbrains” and allows a person to do one thing at a time.

That’s the other way to develop focus – to do one thing at a time. Walk when walking, drink when drinking, eat when eating. Don’t mix it up or multitask. (Multitasking is overrated and isn’t effective - science can prove it.)

Think of it as though: EVERYTHING IS TRAINING.

• How you cook your breakfast is training your mind.
• How you eat your breakfast is training.
• How you wash up afterwards is training.

Everything is training. If you do a thousand things at once and are absentminded for most of it, you are training more of the same.

Being overly busy, over-committed and stressed out is not good training. Being busy often means doing lots of things not very well, and it is likely to lead to not finishing what you start.

1. Identify the Skill or Knowledge Required
2. Strip Away the Non-Essentials (SIMPLIFY)
3. Immerse Yourself

Principle 6 coming tomorrow...

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