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How to Increase Focus: 3 Ways to Control ADD & ADHD- Thomas DeLauer

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How to Increase Focus: 3 Ways to Control ADD & ADHD- Thomas DeLauer: Let's dive into 3 ways to conquer ADD and ADHD and use it to your advantage - http://www.ThomasDeLauer.com The first one is to work smarter. This sounds so vague. What's the difference between working hard and working smart? It really comes down to time management. You see, when we're dealing with these ADHD type tendencies, a lot of times we get absolutely chaotic in our minds thinking about all the different things that we need to do. I want you to focus on something called chunking. I want you to chunk your time. I want you to really get strict about chunking your time and allocating specific tasks to different times within the day. The other thing that you want to do is you want to focus on taking the right kind of breaks. I'm going to explain this in a little bit more detail. It comes down to something called the mast vs. distributive process. What that means is that the body and the mind work really well working in chunks and working in sprints where we are focused. You see, any time multi-tasking comes into the equation, we are reducing our effectiveness at that given task by over 50%. We can't always commit to staying focused. I want you to focus on working on one task and allowing yourself to stay focused on that one task while mitigating all other potential distractions. Then I want you to take 5-10 minutes every hour and completely goof off. Allow yourself to get distracted, allow yourself to goof off, but do something fun. Go play video games, go run outside for a minute, be a kid and flat out be goofy, but there's one rule that you have to follow. You have to set an alarm. Set an alarm so that you're not doing it for any longer than 10 minutes. What it comes back to is this mast vs. distribution process. It will help you get really focused on what is chunk and what needs to get done vs. what is absolutely goof-off time and allows you to reset. Doing this also reduces the negative impact of changing gears. One of the things that I used to deal with all the time was breaking my continuity of thought. The next one is what Dr. Lazarus calls the anti-procrastination. I had to take this, because I absolutely love it. I have thought of this, I just never gave it an actual name. You see, what's interesting is he talks a lot about something I talk about even in my live broadcast videos that I've done and that is the fact that action precedes motivation. What that means is you are more apt to be motivated to continue to do something than you would be motivated to start. Doesn't it bother you to leave a job completely unfinished? Yeah, you want to set it up in such a way where you can focus on it and you can get the job done. The way that you execute that is with something called task activating thoughts. That means you are actually taking action with your mind. What am I going to do? You're going to plan. What am I going to do? How am I going to do it? Task activating thoughts. You are activating the task within your mind rather than just thinking about it. There is a big difference between motivation and inspiration. Being inspired doesn't mean that you are really taking action on the thing. The last, and honestly the most simple, thing is to plan. Virtually every single successful person that I have ever met has been someone that creates and executes a plan on a daily basis. They don't do this because they're obsessed; they do this because they know that that is how they operate. You see, it's not a bad thing to have this ADHD style mind. That's what allows us to really get things done and have a lot of hyper-attention to detail and just to overall be a good business person or overall be successful in anything you put your mind to. You just have to channel it. Just like a map is your guide geographically, a plan that dictates how you spend your time is like a map for your time. If you're traveling without a map, you're traveling without a GPS, there's a very good chance you will just be wandering aimlessly. Execute that plan the day before when you can step back and take an objective look at the day ahead of you. Give yourself an honest plan when you're not exhausted or when you're not anxious of what you can do to get the most out of your day, to harness that focus and harness that ADHD energy that you've got into being the best version of yourself. As always, keep it locked in here on my videos. I'll see you in the next one.