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After reading this article and engaging the method called Focus Box Magic, you may become more productive than you ever have been in your life. Focus Box Magic does not only apply to working at home, but can be applied to any  project. 

  Many successful people, the author included, are attention deficit, and habitual multi-taskers who once had problems finishing things. However, they have trained themselves to use a method to focus them on the task at hand. 

  Look at the example focus box.  It has eight boxes and each of them do a job to keep you  focused, maybe more so than you ever have been before.  It works so well that many call it "magic!"

The magic of each of the eight boxes:

 

A-Commitment of Time:  Before you start working, frame out the time you will commit to the session for working.  Consider it a meeting with your staff (you) and you cannot be interrupted.  Let the phones go to voicemail; ignore faxes coming in, emails, and your doorbell. 

 

 

Focus Box  
Date:  Time: Other:                                      
Project Name:

A-Commitment of Time:

I  will work for ___ Minutes and ___ Hours in this session.

Time Now: _______

Projected  End Time:

________

 

B-Motivation:  The Overall Goal With My Home Business is to:

 Earn $____ by the end of next month; and

To begin earning $____ a week by the end of 12 Months.

 

C-The Goal of this Work Session  is to do the following three things:

__1-

__2-

__3-

 

 D-Additional three things, if there is time:

__1-

__2-

__3-

 

E-Unrelated Things I Need To Do When this Work Session is Over:

 

 

 

 

 

F-Related reminders, Notes and Tasks that come to mind:

G-Next Session:

Things that need to be done:

1-

2-

3-

My next work session will be:

Date:              Time:

 

 

___ Put it on the calendar; honor the commitment.

H- Report Card

Date/Time:_______________

Time I put into this session:

Minutes:___      Hours: ___

 

In this session my efforts were:

 Near Perfect/Great/Okay/Poor

 

Circumstances that enhanced or deteriorated this session:

 

 

 

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B-Motivation:  The Overall Goal With My Home Business is...:  Motivate yourself by remembering why you are sitting down to work.  Some of us like quick pay-offs or interaction with people.  You must remind yourself why you sit down to work and do the things that you do.

 

C-The Goal of this Work Session: Prioritize the three most important tasks--only three.  Plan three tasks at a time.  When you have filled in the squares A-D, Start working.  Focus on one task until it is done, then move on to the next.  If you only get one task done, you will list the other two in Box G.

 

D-Additional three things, if there is time:  Before you start your session you will have three important tasks in the C box, in this box you will plan the next three, in case you continue working.

 

E-Unrelated Things I Need To Do When this Work Session is Over: When you work you will think of a million unrelated  MUST DO NOW tasks in life---Call the PTO back, get the dog a grooming appointment, or  pick up the dry cleaning. .  Do not become distracted.  Make a note in box E and continue working.

 

F-Related reminders, Notes and Tasks that come to mind:While you are working, you may be tempted to jump ahead, or distracted because you may not remember something, so you will  get off task and jump to another task. Box F will give you a place to make notes and relieve your mind of things that cause you to leave your three tasks and go to something else.

Make notes of where you need to pick up at the next session.

 

G-Next Session: You will be tempted to skip this box, but please do not.  After you finish the tasks you can complete  for this work session, plan the next session's tasks and when the next session will be. That way you will not waste time when you sit down at the next session trying to figure out where to start.  Also, in box G, you will determine when the next session will be. Put it on your calendar and honor it as if you were going to a regular job.

 

H- Report Card:  Track good and bad habits that enhance or deteriorate your work by grading your session.  If you only got one task done that took a lot of effort and time, and you are pleased, give yourself a Great.  If you knocked out all of your tasks, give yourself a Near Perfect.  If you didn't finish anything because you allowed yourself to be distracted, you get a Poor.   Note circumstances that added or took away from your session.  If you used all of the boxes in the Focus Box, give yourself a "+".  This method will help you to learn what works and what doesn't work. 

 

Other- Write anything you need to here and review it at your next session.  The Other box is just to accommodate your musings or distracting thoughts.

 

Put it together.  Print a month's worth of focus boxes at a time. If you work on your project once a day, print 30-31.  If you work on your project twice a day, print 60-62, and so forth.. Put them in a noteboook and use one at each session.

 

Use of this article and and reference to Focus Box Magic:  Feel free to use an exact replica of this  focus box.  If this article is reprinted on another website it must be used as written, including this paragraph.   Use of this article is permitted with reference to the Online Success Guide and the webpage that this article originally appeared on.  This page is http://www.1netsuites.com/online_success_guide_focus_box.htm.  This link must accompany use of this article or a copy of the Focus Box.  on another websiite.

 

 

 

 

  
   

 

 

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