How Founders Boost Focus in High-Stress Moments
Let’s talk about focus, and specifically, emergency focus.
There are these moments in our lives when our thinking pattern, our thought pattern, and our ideas sort of get pulled in a direction that maybe can be a little obsessive or maybe can’t serve us in the ways that it might if it was a little more calm and had a lower intensity with it. There are two specific times I want you to think about that we often get into these emergency thought patterns;
Typically after a tough conversation. So, we’ve just finished a Zoom call or a conversation with somebody and it didn’t go the way we wanted it to go, and we’re stewing over it, thinking “ugh, that person, if they only knew” or “man, they’re just so wrong and I’m so right about this.” It can get really easy to fall into the pattern of re-hashing that conversation, or re-hashing our own self-talk about why we’re right and why they’re wrong over and over and over again.
The second situation, for many entrepreneurs, is in the evening when we’re supposed to be unwinding. So, maybe after any other distractions that might keep our mind focused on other things, like reading or maybe catching up on Netflix or Hulu, but instead now time to unwind and to get ready for our evening routine and time to fall asleep and that’s where the other thought process gremlin often pops up and says “think about this, think about this problem, think about that problem, think about that problem.”
This week’s challenge is around trying to bring focus to moments where we’d like a little more control over our thought and maybe moving on - or at least not re-hashing something over and over - can serve us a little bit better.
The tool we recommend using is called TFB, Tongue Finger Breath. It’s all about breaking us out of that default thinking pattern, that loop, that little cycle that we get stuck in that keeps re-hashing over and over again.
Use the tool this week and the goal is to see if - in situations where you might have held onto something a little longer than you needed to - you find it popping up again in your mind a little bit less.
So in that moment, maybe right after that tough conversation or in that moment when we’re trying to fall asleep in the evening and we find our mind just wandering and returning back to this pattern again, use the Tongue Finger Breath tool to try and bring focus to your mind and escape that loop and see how it feels.
The Tongue Finger Breath tool is one of many tools available in the Founders First mindstate tracking app for entrepreneurs. See all the tools and get personalized recommendations on how to best invest your time each day based on your current mindstate by trying the app free for 7 days.
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