Focus
The Simple Power Of Being Focused In Our Work.
2015 Jack Ricchiuto | DesigningLife Books
Paperback | 120p | $14.95 US
From the back Cover:
Drawing from the neurosciences, 17-time author Jack Ricchiuto presents a fresh approach to being focused in every dimension of your work. Discover how the quality of your experience at work is equal to the quality of attention you bring to it. When you are focused, you are less distracted and reactive. You get things done and enjoy what life offers you to enjoy. You are at your best.
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Invitation
No era in human history has seen the kinds of change, complexity and connectivity at work we are seeing now. In this landscape, the most vital competency is our capacity for focus.
When we are focused, we work with a sense of clarity and calmness. We are less distracted and reactive. We get more done. We see possibilities we would otherwise miss. We enjoy more of what life offers us to enjoy. In our work, focus is the dog that wags the tail of everything good.
Clarity and calmness are optimal spaces for engaging our strengths and passions. Working from our strengths and passions makes our weaknesses and self-doubts less relevant. Focus keeps us creative, connected and agile.
In this exploration of focus, I draw wisdom from the neurosciences and over three decades of research and work in positive psychology and work with thousands of groups in over two dozen industries and sectors.
Our best intentions have power when we show up with focus. Focus is the power of surfing the waves of change that contour our landscapes of work. When we see things in our work going well, it’s because we are focused.
Focus is a consciousness that creates the energy vibrations of a clear, calm mind. The quality of our attention is the most significant factor in the narratives of our success. This is the simple power of focus.
Content
The nature of focus
9 Invitation
13 The primacy of focus
14 Focus
17 In sync with change
19 Information overload
21 Change blindness
23 Follow through
24 The business case
27 Clarity and calmness
28 Static
29 Intuition
31 Focus is simple
33 Wiring our brain for focus
The practice of focus
37 5 practices of focus
43 Context and context
44 Generalizations and opinions
48 The power of intention
49 Subtle practice
51 The transition from unfocused to focused
53 Breaths of focus
54 But my body is amazing
55 The virtues of multitasking
57 Anywhere, anytime
Deepening focus
61 Consciousness
62 The joy of focus
64 Shiny objects
65 Unfocused together
67 The wisdom of “don’t know”
68 Growth mindsets
69 Windows on the world
71 The paradoxes of being focused and unfocused
73 Possibility space
74 The tyranny of lists
76 Uniqueness
78 Urban walks
79 Flow
81 Nature
Focus at work
85 Engagement
87 Meetings
89 The feedback conundrum
91 Oh, the buttons they push
93 By the way
94 Charts and graphs
95 Anti-todo lists
96 Sane and crazy
98 Drama
99 Everything is our teacher
100 Being in control
103 What futurists do, really
104 Quality introductions, quality connections
105 Kindness
107 Listening
110 The people we care for
112 Leadership as remindership
113 Focused organizations
115 Courage
117 Jack Ricchiuto
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