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“…You can only walk down one road at a time, so walk down that road. FOCUS, FOCUS, FOCUS,” says George Fraser (Chairman & CEO of FraserNet, Inc.) when I interviewed him for my book, Tales of People Who Get It.

What does that quote mean to you?

When Fraser was asked what his favourite quotation was, he responded, “First things first, second things never.” Fraser does not believe in multitasking. What he suggests is to only focus on the first thing on your list, when you have completed the first task, cross it off and the second task actually becomes the first and so on.

Like Fraser, I do not believe in multitasking because when I do too many things simultaneously, I do none well. That has been my personal experience. I try to focus on the task at hand. If I am listening to someone, they become the most important person in the world to me, so I focus on what they are saying. I learned this from my friend Julia Conn Watt a few months before she died from cancer of the adrenals. I always thought that I was an excellent listener, but Julia taught me that I could be a lot better.

What techniques do you use when you want to focus? Here is a simple technique that I use:

1. Close your eyes
2. Take a few deep breaths, breathing deeply into your lungs by flexing your diaphragm (you know that you are breathing deeply when your stomach pushes out when you are inhaling)
3. With your eyes still closed, look upwards, and focus on the point between your eyebrows
4. When you feel a slight pressure, start counting down slowly from ten to one. When you reach one, you are now in the alpha state

The Alpha Brainwave State is where creativity occurs. Whenever you are in alpha – there are four known brainwave states – you never worry. If you have to study for a test, or want to remember large amounts of data, be sure to go into the alpha state before you begin. When you are ready to use the information, go into alpha again and you will retrieve/remember all the information that you studied.

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