Controlling Your Mental Focus:
When A Mere Emotional Feeling Can Decide Your Fate!

          The quality of your Mental Focus determines how you feel about nearly everything you have to do in life.  The way you feel determines what you decide do, what actions you decide to take, and whether you'll consistently carry out the right actions to squeeze all the juice from life.  So, if you are in Sales, Marketing, or any other career or business area where you need to build a customer base to generate revenue, you should understand clearly that your feelings (associated thoughts and emotions) about even the smallest, mundane, laborious details of the objectives you have for your life determine not only the quality of the experience of working daily towards your goal, but whether you will hit your target, period!

          Your feelings - the real-time act of picturing something in your mind and having an emotional response to that imagery - must be positively congruent and agreeably supportive with what you've set out to do, or you'll find yourself engaged in self-sabotaging behavioral patterns such as procrastination, mind-changing, and seeking out distracting, stress-relieving activities that are not goal-achieving.

          If you are in Business, Sales, Marketing, or another Client-oriented enterprise, you must have consistently enjoyable feelings in regards to such tasks as:

• Prospecting for new business
• Picking up the phone and calling people you don't know
• Following up with potential and existing clients
• Mastering your skills on a daily basis
• Setting action goals for the day and keeping track of progress
• Continually improving yourself as a human being

          As a habit, you'll want to begin conducting a daily inventory of your mental reactions to thinking about the little things you must do to succeed at your goals.  Is there fear?  Worry?  Doubt?  Disinterest?  Frustration?  When you are planning out the details of your day, notice (and, better, TAKE NOTE of) the internal dialogue that pops up with each task planned.  You may discover that for one or more tasks, you are not particularly thrilled to do them.  This can have a cascading effect that impacts your whole day.

          Every such disempowering feeling toward something you know you should do needs to be displaced, replaced, or eradicated by cultivating an OPPOSITE mental association, good feeling, and welcoming thought regarding the thing to be done.

          Worrisome, anxious feelings can be displaced by eagerness or excitement merely by consciously changing the content of the thought itself and then holding your attention onto the new content until it is crowds out the previous mindset.  This is the Psychological Law of Displacement in action.

          Often, merely adjusting the physical position of your body and deepening your breathing can be of value, in combination with forming uplifting imagery to move the negative experience off the stage of your mind.  Whenever you do this kind of approach, you should immediately find a way to take some form of action so that its value is maximized, and the worrisome habit rendered impotent.

          A fearful notion can be replaced (better yet, eradicated) by concentrating fully on what needs to be done.  The act of mental concentration disengages your mental resources from the fearful state and redirects them to the task of concentration.  The effort to do so requires a courageous resolve which replaces the shaky mindset.  In the moment you switch states of mind, you'll feel as though the fear simply doesn't exist, and that is because as long as you maintain the mindset of mental concentration - of determined resolve - it won't.

          From a mental state of determined resolve, take the necessary action while maintaining the mindset throughout.  You'll find yourself far more productive and your results will be superior.  Nothing solves fear like proving that it is merely an illusion.

          A doubtful mindset can be eradicated by focusing all your attention on a feeling of resolute faith.  The skill to concentrate on a positive state (at will) is priceless!  At any time, you have the ability to intensely think of a positive state and immerse yourself in it, mentally.  Doing so may require solid resolve if the negative state is being particularly stubborn, but resolve wins out every time.  Again, once you have accessed the mindset, hold it without until the previous state is no longer bothering you.

          Whatever creative approach you use, the important principle to keep in mind is that you do not have to settle for a negative feeling toward a valuable task merely out of mental habit.  You have a choice to change any disempowering, goal-killing emotion, and once changed, to take action under the pleasure of the new, empowering mental state.  As a forward-moving person, you should take advantage of your ability to shift Mental Focus at will in order to make your workday and your work life more pleasantly productive.

T. Lavon Lawrence
Author, NEURO-SCULPTING!© Certified Mental Fitness Trainer
The NEURO-SCULPTING!© Mental Fitness Training Studio
www.neuro-sculpting.com
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