The Secret Of Change Is To Focus Energy Towards The New

Do you dare to look at your dreams instead of your past? That is the question that you must answer if you want to make a change in your life and focus all your energy towards the new, instead of wasting it on looking back.

Throughout our existence we experience many changes, some sudden, some slower and more predictable, some painful and some fun. These changes also mean personal transformations that we sometimes resist out of fear, but that it is necessary to live to learn and improve ourselves.

Change and the triple “A” rule

One of the aspects that can most affect us with respect to a change is to lose focus on our goal, on the new that awaits us and be distracted by many other details or aspects that are not as important as the dream we want to achieve.

For example, if you want to change jobs and you are determined to do so, your intuition can give you a hand, look at what you really want to do, without losing focus because of what others tell you or what other people think about what you are doing. you must do to be happy. Who better than you knows what makes you happy?

To manage change and focus correctly we can use the triple “A” rule:

Acceptance of emotions

We fear changes because they usually push us out of our comfort zone. Uncertainty and the unknown scare us because it is impossible to know what will happen, because in new situations we control fewer variables. For this reason, the first step to overcome change successfully is to manage our emotions, especially fear, and accept them.

Fear should not be a reason to paralyze us and do nothing, but to stimulate us to act, to be curious and to be proactive. Fear is a natural response to the unknown, but we must not allow it to dominate us.

Adaptation

To adapt to changes and focus on the new that they bring with them, it is necessary that we know ourselves. That is to say, that we carry out a work of introspection to identify our defects and our virtues, so that we can minimize the former and enhance the latter.

Knowing ourselves will allow us to better adapt to change, to know in what aspects we may need help and in what other aspects we will make the most of our skills and knowledge. Perhaps a good idea is to question beliefs that we have ingrained and replace them with more positive ones.

Anticipation

Once we know our emotions and how to manage them, and we know what skills we have that are useful for change, the time has come to start acting. It is time to get on the mark and start investing active energy in pursuit of our goal.

Managing change will mean that we have to anticipate, see what can happen and consider different ways of acting. In this way we will feel more secure and have more self-confidence, since unforeseen events will be reduced.

In addition, in La Mente es Maravillosa we have the online course Keys to change management taught by Cristina Soria through which you will learn to manage step by step the entire process that entails a change in order to change your perspective and get to know yourself better. to yourself.

Learn to focus better

In our day to day we are surrounded by a lot of elements and situations that distract us from the focus on our objectives. Think about what happens when what you usually do when you talk on the phone: it is very rare that we dedicate ourselves exclusively to the conversation; or when you start to perform a task on the computer and accumulate tabs. That being said, what can we do to refocus ourselves?

Do one thing at a time

Doing several things at the same time is overrated, and sometimes it stresses us because we are not able to focus and finish a specific thing. It has happened to all of us that we are writing an email, for example, they call us and in the end we do not finish the email.

To avoid the above, every time you start a task focus until it is finished, avoid interruptions and continue to the end. This way of proceeding will give us order and the feeling that we progress and do not leave the tasks half done, but rather focus on concrete things.

Meditate

Meditation can help us a lot to focus on the here and now, on what surrounds us and what we see and feel right now. Through deep breathing we will be aware of our body and focus on what is happening in the present.

Find a quiet place, sit cross-legged, and begin to breathe deeply. Focus on how the air enters your body, how it travels the way from your nose as it enters to your mouth as it leaves, and let your muscles relax.

Do the important thing first

If you have several pending tasks, it is necessary to prioritize, so that the most important ones are not left in the pipeline and the least, unless unforeseen, either. Think that if we leave the important thing to do it after the rest of the tasks, we will be tired and we will not pay the attention it deserves to a task that requires all our concentration.

Take advantage of the first moments of the day to do the most important or, failing that, the heaviest.  That way you will do it with all your energy, with a good dose of creativity and focusing the focus on your goal, without distractions and with the minimum accumulated tension.