6 Quick Questions to Help You Focus on what Truly Matters now

Questions: 1) Priorities, 2) Distractions, 3) Quality Time,

4) Healthy Limit, 5) Minimize or Eliminate, 6) Free Time.

“Don’t be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week’s value out of a year while another man gets a full year’s value out of a week.”Charles Richards

Intro to Questions:

There are many important things in life.

Your family and friends. A hobby perhaps.

Working out and staying healthy.

The most important Relationship in your life.

Reading, learning and growing as a person.

But finding the time for what is most important in life is not always easy. It sometimes feels like there aren’t enough hours in the day.

But even if it may not feel like it, there are often ways to improve how you use your time.

This week I’d like to share 6 of the best questions I have found for doing just that and for shaking yourself out of a rut.

6 Quick Questions to Help You Focus on what Truly Matters

1. What are the top few most important Priorities in my life right now?

With a lack of focus on what is most important in your life, it becomes easy to spend too much time and energy on aimless actions or work or on things that aren’t really that important, but you do it out of old habit or because of other unhelpful reasons.

To keep your attention in the right place, it is essential to remind yourself every day of what is truly most important to you.

So ask yourself: what are the top few most important priorities in my life right now?

Write those things down on notes and put one in your workspace and the others on your bedside table.

2. What are the 1-3 most common Distractions that keep me from doing my work in a focused way?

Figure out how you can prevent those things from distracting you. It could be by:

• Shutting the door to your office.
• Putting your phone in silent mode.
• Having notifications for your Email or an instant Messaging program/app shut off.
  

  3.What are the few most common Distractions that keep me from having quality time with the people closest to me?

The answer could be – for instance – your Smart Phone, TV-shows you just watch out of routine and not because you like them very much or bringing your work back home.

Then figure out how you can reduce or eliminate those distractions.

4. What is one Healthy Limit I can start setting in my life this week?

One of the smarter ways to simplify your life and to free up time is to set limits.

Here are a few key areas that you can set powerful and healthy limits for:

• Your Daily Input. Reduce the number of Blogs, Newsletters, Magazines, Podcasts, TV-shows etc. you follow. Just keep the ones you are really getting something out of.
• Email. Just check and process your Email during one chunk of time once per day. Instead of checking it 10 times or more each day.
• Social Activities. Write down a list of the Social Activities you are involved in after school or work. Maybe you are involved in a club or an activity that it is not as fun or rewarding as it used to be. Maybe you want to re-arrange your priorities a bit to focus on something else now.

5. How can I Minimize or Eliminate one thing I may have missed?

What else can you Eliminate or Minimize?

Some meetings at work or in school?

Re-editing or some social media channel you hang out in a lot?

Really question and reconsider your own daily and weekly habits regularly instead of moving along in the same old tracks just because it is what you usually do.

6. What is one piece of unnoticed or misused piece of Free Time during my regular day?

There is often quite a bit of open travel– or waiting-time during a year.

What will you use such time for – as we go into the end of this year?

Perhaps you would like to read more while riding the train/bus or while waiting for a meeting to start.

I, for example, often listen to Podcasts while I’m driving or while waiting for a meeting.

Even if you only have 10-20 minutes of commuting time each day, you still have a many, many hours in a year that you may want to, at least partly, use in a new way.

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Comments: Do you know any other ways to Focus?

from Positivity Blog 11-25 edited by Peter/CXO Wiz4.biz

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