2. Focus Matters in Work Dee Dee Scharf, PhD, LMHC, CRC

3. Distractions……

4. Mind Attention Focus Concentration Organization Preparation. Awareness Alert Distracted Detoured Disorganized Tangential Cirumstantial Denial Naïve Lazy Apathetic

5. Focus in …… focus out……focus on….. Verb  The act of focusing….  Read as instruction or directive:  Focus better or more Adjective  This makes “matters” the verb…..  Mattering matters!!! The word “Focus” in “Focus Matters at Work” Language and Semantics…..

6. Focus Concentration on a defined phenomenon while filtering and ignoring other environmental stimuli an earthquake's underground point of origin or hypocenter a concept referring to the way information in one phrase relates to information that has come before a point toward which light rays are made to converge Wikipedia

7. Am-ing  Discard “Should have….Would have…..Could have…..  I am……….  I Want…….  Discard Wishing……..adopt Hope

8. Spirit  Hope  Visualize  Keep your eyes straight ahead, always…..on the light…..the horizon  Hold the helm, the plow and don’t look back……  Faith Points  Power  Freedom

9. Body  Engaging the Senses  Hands  Feet  Eyes  Ears  Voice  Taste  Smell  Active/Movement  Rest/sleep  Breath  Nutrition 

10. Heart The Heart learns a DIFFERENT WAY

11. Applied…..  Be all of YOU NOT JUST THE WORKER PART OF YOU…..  Evaluative  Work: Skills, Abilities, Interests, Achievement, Intelligence, etc  Mental Health  Anxiety, ADD, Depression, Grief, Thought Disorders

12. Applied…..  DSM IV, DSM V, Medical Model…..  Observations  Surveys  Tap Tests  Medications  Insurances

13. Synchronicity as strategy  Rhythms of Attention: Much to Consider  Cultural: Work, Social, Familial, Avocational  Individual  Time…..  Chunking  Daring  Play  Energy

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