Monday AM Concentration Distractions Only Occur With Your Permission... Jesus said, No procrastination. No backward looks. You cant put Gods kingdom off till tomorrow. Seize the day. Luke 9:62 (The Message) It is such a fast-paced world. There are so many distracting things. How do you concentrate? Here are some suggestions: Maintain A Clutter-Free Environment. When you have papers, magazines, file folders and other things scattered around, they attract your attention away from what you need to be working on. Put everything away in a file cabinet and get out only the things you need for the work youre doing. When youre finished with that, file it away and get out the next project. Eliminate Sound Pollution. Whether youre in a busy office or a home office, there are always sounds that can distract you. Find a way to eliminate them. I find music to be very effective. It needs to be music that wont interrupt your thought. For me, that means instrumental music. Listen with a pair of headphones and you can create your own distraction-free audio environment. Control The Telephone, Dont Let It Control You. Use voice mail or an answering machine to answer your phone while youre concentrating. Schedule a certain time during the day when youll be available for calls. At all other times, give callers a way to leave messages. Work On One Thing At A Time. Keep working until youre finished, and then go on to the next thing. Dont try to juggle several tasks at once. Be Polite But Firm About Interruptions. If someone drops by to chat, politely let them know that youre busy and arrange to get together with them later. Work When You Work, Relax When You Relax, Play When You Play. Dont do anything halfway. Dont try to watch TV while catching up on some work. Dont try to eat lunch while writing a report. Make time for the relaxation and fun, so you wont get burned out. When you really work during work time, you wont feel like you should be working all the time. If you spread yourself too thin, youll never get anything done. Make a commitment to focused concentration, and youll be amazed at what you can accomplish. Father in Heaven, forgive me, forgive us, It is one of the unexpected disasters of the modern age that our new unparalleled access to information has come at the price of our capacity to concentrate for any length of time. When our lives become driven by passion, excitement, or pressure to accomplish, our FOCUS/CONCENTRATION must hold the wheels, or else we might miss the way, or worse go the wrong way, or now that I Think about it, even CRASH! Father help me to Concentrate, to use the gift of my mind. In Jesus Name. Amen. GOD BLESS YOU ALL!
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 12:35:13 +0000
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