Learn to focus and stop the mental confusion. You’ll get ahead way faster. Once the neural pathways are cleared, you have a really free flow of traffic. You can focus on anything and it goes smoothly. And here’s the crux. You must focus on one thing at a time in order for your ideas to travel with speed and volume. Just think about what downtown traffic is like in rush hour. That’s what most people’s minds are like most of the time. How can anyone focus and create anything?
Imagine, there are about a million people all walking in every direction. The roadways are jam packed with cars. Construction clogs up the lanes. The traffic lights can’t seem to turn on the right colours. Taxis stop where and when they please. Busses and trucks slow down the traffic and block your view of oncoming traffic. Bicycles weave in and out. People yell and curse. Even if you’re driving a Bughatti Veyron, you’re going nowhere fast. And this is what is happening in your mind if you do not learn to develop absolute focus.
Mental Confusion Is Like Heavy Traffic During Rush Hour
Mental Confusion Defeats Success
By its very nature, mental confusion is already doing what it is described as. It distracts your mind from any focus. In fact, you’re likely thinking about a thousand different things an hour. That’s quite shocking. Like you, I’ve been wondering where and how I can do that! In fact, if that’s what my brain can do, that’s tremendous power within my body! But that’s the power I have been using automatically thinking of all sorts of things all around me almost identical to the downtown street activity downtown. I’m going nowhere fast.
This is not mental disease. And there’s no need to try to make excuses for it. The brain is prewired that way. It reacts immediately to stimuli. That means whenever an input that affects the senses and also the brain, your mind will tell your body to act in a certain way. Now, that’s amazing. Imagine trying to decipher the myriads of information slamming at you every second. Some say at least ten thousand pieces of information is what your brain needs to process every second. No wonder there is confusion. In fact, scientists claim that the brain filters most of these bits out and there goes most of your cognition missed! This mental confusion becomes automatic and it seems everything else is glossed over. You do not focus on most things.
Learn To Focus
Isn’t it rather a scary thing that you are missing out on so much of your life? Perhaps that’s your bliss as in ignorance. Can you imagine forgetting to go to work and then getting fired? No, but why would you want to go back to work after rushing to the corner Tim Horton’s thinking of nothing but your latte? But then, somehow you remember you have to go back to work on time. Lunch hour is almost over. Hey, congratulations! You’ve just focussed on something very intensely.
So, focus does have its use after all. It can give you what you want. At the very least focus directs you toward a goal or your dream. Focus is very simply reminding your brain and body to do a certain set of things or carry out tasks which have been laid out. Again, this is a result of another focus. Perhaps your wife will not put you into the dog house again. You learn through pain, failure and simply having had enough of things going wrong.
The prize in doing things right often enough is that you complete your goals which is a directed focus. Then do them some more, this focus becomes a habit and you do them automatically. In fact, dreams are manifested from this. You see, you are constantly thinking about the tasks which you have set yourself. It becomes fun and you repeat it all again. Thus the habit in your mind has come full circle. It now focuses on the habit of focusing on what you have set your desires on! Notice how the mental confusion has disappeared?
There are tools you can use to help you focus. Make a collection of reminders that you use every day. Write in your notebook or diary in blue ink on white paper (you remember better). Then put a note on your mirror so you see it every morning and night. Put a note on your car visor. Put it on your computer screen, on your tv or anywhere else that you happen to frequent. Make a voice recording when you begin your radio or MP3. Read a book that reminds you of that issue. Listen to audios that do the same. Oh, yes, make very sure you act on these messages all the time. Now, isn’t it much more fun driving that Bughatti Veyron you dream about through an empty road?
