Focus Matters in Work

Dee Dee Scharf, PhD, LMHC, CRC

Distractions……

Mind

Attention

Focus

Concentration

Organization

Preparation.

Awareness

Alert

DistractedDetouredDisorganizedTangentialCirumstantialDenialNaïveLazyApathetic

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…..

FocusConcentration 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

Am-ing

Discard “Should have….Would have…..Could have…..

I am……….

I Want…….

Discard Wishing……..adopt Hope

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

Body

Engaging the Senses Hands

Feet

Eyes

Ears

Voice

Taste

Smell

Active/Movement

Rest/sleep

Breath

Nutrition

HeartThe Heart learns a DIFFERENT WAY

Applied…..

Be all of YOU NOT JUST THE WORKER PART OF YOU…..

Evaluative

Work: Skills, Abilities, Interests, Achievement, Intelligence, etc

Mental HealthAnxiety, ADD, Depression, Grief, Thought Disorders

Applied…..

DSM IV, DSM V, Medical Model…..

Observations

Surveys

Tap Tests

Medications

Insurances

Synchronicity as strategy

Rhythms of Attention: Much to Consider

Cultural: Work, Social, Familial, Avocational

Individual

Time…..

Chunking

Daring

Play

Energy

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