Focusing on two or three key business or personalissues does something else for your behaviour.
It triggers your Reticular Activating System.
Your brain is assaulted by thousands of messages each second. Everything you see, hear, smell, feel and touch is a message entering your brain. The Reticular Activating System filters through all these messages and decides which ones will get page one treatment – that is, arouse the brain.
One of the things we’ve learned from working with entrepreneurs is that you tend to pay attention to the things which are important to you at the time. If your currently dominant thoughts are about creating a new brochure, you’ll start seeing other brochures. You’ll hear conversations about brochures. You’ll pick up ideas relating to brochures and even notice colors that would be attractive for the new brochure.
In other words, the Reticular Activating System will pass through anything even remotely related to the important issue – the brochure. From a practical point of view, this means that, if you want to solve a problem or achieve a goal, keep it at the top of your mind. Think about it, talk about it, write about it and imagine it completed. This is one of the reasons why affirmations work so well and why it is important to review your goals frequently.
If you focus on improving a specific key indicator of your business success, your Reticular Activating System will pass through sights, sounds, people and ideas even remotely related to that point of focus. In other words, if you measure it visibly, frequently and attentively, it will likely improve.
New Car?
When you bought that new modelof car you thought ‘I’m going to be one of a few people with this . I thought that when I got my prized BMW. But now I have it it seems everyone in the world has one. All of a sudden I notice Beemers, before they were of no interest to me
WORKING THE ROOM
What has this got to do with working the room?
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