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The right balance of commitments - well-spread focus
Submitted by RagsToRich on Sat, 2010-04-03 18:56
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I recommend having at least three major focuses at any one point, but no more than ten. What is a major focus? Well I’ll give you a few examples from my life right now:
* Learning Spanish to conversational level
Takes approximately an hour to two hours a day of my time
* Learning comprehensive web-design
Takes between 10 and 20 hours a week of my time.
* Mindfulness meditation
Takes an hour+ a day of my time
* Various ego corrections (letting go of revenge, assuming the best in people, etc.)
Constant focus throughout the day plus about 10 minutes a day re-cap and checking up on progress
So you get the idea of what I mean by a “focus”. It’s basically anything which is taking up large proportions of your time and energy.
It’s important to get a good range of focuses in your life. If there’s one area which you’re really heavily focusing on, that may be all well and good for short periods of time – in-fact it may even appear to be very beneficial at first.
However, the natural ups and downs of a progression will soon begin to take their toll. If you are committed to only one area then it can become a strain when not everything is going as you’d like.
On the other hand it’s also possible to have too many commitments. If you have too many things going on you will dilute your attention and energy far too much to see effective improvement in any one of those areas.
Projects, and skill-sets, take time, energy and commitment to cultivate. If you start building a chair from planks of wood, if you only construct it till it’s 75% complete with only three legs then all you have is a useless incomplete three-legged wooden obstacle.
The danger with having too many things going on in your life is that you could put in a lot of work in all these areas, and begin abandoning some of them before they begin to bear fruit.
Not only that but you want to ensure diversity in your focuses. If they were all, for example, just different facets of working on “relationships” then you risk similar problems to only having one focus. You want to spread a wide net, get a good range of diverse projects to work on.Take a moment right now to review the major areas you’re working on. Do you have too few or too many? Are you putting all the hours in? Is there a good diverse range of areas?
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Re: The right balance of commitments - well-spread focus
That's my aim buddy, thanks for the input.
I'll soon be putting up a list of highly recommended links (in the next few weeks or so).
Look out for that.
Rich
Re: The right balance of commitments - well-spread focus
I have definitely learnt how important it is to focus on a small number of particular areas at once. I always drew up too many goals, and would so it would mean making very slow progress with all of them. This also meant you could be demotivated, and it is harder to learn if you are only doing a few hours of week on something, as youre never fully emersed in it.
I have now simplified things and split my personal development goals into 3 key areas, and have only one area of intense focus in each. They are body, mind, and social/relationships. I have found this to be a lot more productive for myself.
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