How does one stay focused onto a task?

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   Unleashed Freedomposted 13 years ago

   How does one stay focused onto a task?

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   Niket Chaurasiaposted 13 years ago

   1. Close your eyes, sit in calm for a minute and try to organize your thoughts.
   2. Write down your goals/tasks of the day on a pad and keep it in front of you.
   3. Give time limitations to every task, like - I will have to finish this report by 11 AM.
   4. Keep yourself away from things which distract you like tv, phone etc.

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   Sparkleaposted 13 years ago

   It's hard, but it can be done. 
   I find if I totally commit to completing a task that day, no matter what, I do it.  Especially if the unfinished task keeps me worrying about it when I'm supposed to be sleeping.
   
   This means not answering the phone, locking up my 4 felines who love to lay on my paperwork, staying off emails, facebook, even HubPages for a time...and just doing it.
   
   Example: I am committed to leading a non-credit course at our community college on April 28.  I pass out folders with information in them that I have created...to review during class and for the attendees to take home.
   
   Right now, my total focus is to complete my master folder by tomorrow night.
   So I will not do anything else, except this one task.  No laundry, no cooking, no television, no housework...100 percent of my time spent on it until done. 
   
   I just say NO to everything else.  Everything else can wait while I create.
   
   The reward is the completed Master Folder.  Then I can review it, edit it, and next week make the completed folders to distribute on the 28th. 
   
   I have learned that PREPARATION IS CONFIDENCE.

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