FOCUS Causes 80% of Misses [and even Mishaps]
Failed grades in school. Wrong output at work. Strained relationship with spouse and/or loved ones, businesses teetering and in the brink of bankruptcy. Driving snags hit on the way from office to work. Or long-haul drive resulting in an accident This sampling can go on and on but again, FOCUS Causes 80% of Misses and that includes this sampling of exceptions. Strange but all these share its commonality to a lost or weakened FOCUSπππOh oh oh, in our lives, many of our own problems can be traced back to our own UNDOING. Driving as an example. Despite all of the new safety technology in cars. statistics from the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration [NHTSA]show that 94% of car accidents are related to the driver. But hold on, our thread today is not just about driving accidents being caused by lost, weakened or impaired FOCUS but we'd like to peruse the various common day-to-day problems FOCUS seems to be impacting in our daily livesπππ
The 'mother of all ironies' is that even in the workplace, losing FOCUS is really NOT always caused by 'lazy dogs'. Surely, you have come across in the workplace those workaholic colleagues who'd be multi-tasking from 800am till 500pm. those colleagues who would even skip tea-breaks, those folks who would go for their 'bladder break' only when they have pushed it way too far and they CAN'T handle it anymore. So, this is a nightmare to discover and uncork if despite one's 'workaholism', you would end up missing your target deliverables simply because you lost FOCUS [because you ended up being spread thinly across⏳⏳⏳
So, isn't this a very exasperating realization? That when FOCUS does NOT happen in a FOCUSED manner, this dilemma cuts across practically every facet of our daily life, be it as minute as driving or as essential as performing your daily work at the workplace. So WHAT'S our FIX for this? We got to realize that FOCUS does NOT entail any overhead COSTS. Simply get FOCUSED πππ
Even figuring out as to what causes one to lose or compromise focus is, after all, a no-brainer. This reminds of the high-end IBM CPU processors marketed as MPP's [Massive Parallel Processors] but do you know that even MPP's execute its multi-threading PER THREAD? So, what's the common denominator of both us humans and technology? We can only execute one task at a time. Think about FOCUS causing 80% of misses✅✅✅