From the course: Extreme Focus for Effective Performance
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Focus and your environment
From the course: Extreme Focus for Effective Performance
Focus and your environment
- Let me ask you a question. Does your work environment help or hinder your ability to focus? A typical work day is filled with inevitable distractions, meetings, questions from coworkers, emails, messages, alerts, and these are just some of the external distractions you face. Distractions can also come from within, random thoughts, worries, daydreaming, internet surfing which digresses into large chunks of lost time. Mental discipline is key, yet our immediate environment plays an important role in helping to support focus. In this video, I want to help you adjust your environment to help you achieve true focus. And this is done in a few simple steps. First, I want you to evaluate your workspace for potential distractions. For some people, a low level of ambient noise helps them to focus. And for others, background noise is distracting. If background noise disturbs you invest in some noise canceling headphones.…
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