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To keep gaining power over your attention repeat this step right when you wake up or before you fall asleep. This is the crucial first step to shifting attention toward goals through focus. Controlling your thoughts, realizing your power and letting your attention focus on what you need to accomplish. It is as American Scholar, Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Thought is the blossom, language the bud & action the fruit behind it.”
So with your power over attention, think over a situation you are currently facing. Do you have debt? Yes, well do you focus on increasing income or decreasing expenses? Many times people want to increase income to keep up with expenses when it should be that expenses lag behind income.
Unemployed? If so, is your “attention” focused on the best opportunity for employment or how horrible your current situation of unemployment is? Are you staying informed and connected with previous co-workers? Have you heard of previous co-workers getting hired? Many times people focus on someone else landing a job and think, “Why not me?” instead of, “I know this person, they have a job and clearly their company is hiring, maybe I should contact them and congratulate them or even ask them questions to how they got hired so quickly.”
Since we’re here to help you land a job, shift attention to networking everyday? Focus on attending networking events, creating online profiles on professional networking sites or updating career skills by reading into the field. Too often people get laid off and ignore their career field because they have a sour taste from the lay off.
Overall whenever you don’t feel focused on a task, goal or your main objective, take time to deliberately shift your attention. When doubt creeps in your mind, there is a way for you to combat the feelings. It is through your control over attention. If you can read an article because you wanted to keep your attention on the words, you can clearly control your attention enough to shift it away from doubts and fears.
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