Understanding the Power of Focus

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    I really enjoyed this series and found quite a few useful tips in it. However, I think it's important to recognize the downsides and dangers of a strong focus. Zigmund Bauman argues in Modernity and the Holocaust that a society with too much role specialization can lead to terrible things. According to Bauman the fact that such a large number of people all made small contributions to the Holocaust enabled it to take place. The Holocaust is an extreme example, I'll admit. My point is that w

Gary Ryan Blair
The Goals Guy

Gary is the President of The GoalsGuy Learning Systems, a highly focused training organization whose mission is to help their clients build and sustain superior performance. They accomplish this objective by helping their clients increase their sense of direction, confidence, and capability in all areas of their personal and professional life.

Gary believes passionately in the enormous, untapped potential that resides within each person and is committed to providing individuals and corporations with tools of knowledge and skill they can use to unlock this potential. He has developed an entire library of world-class training programs, books and learning resources like the Personal Strategic Plan that are designed to make the heart sing, the mind expand and the spirit soar!

To support his belief in the importance of goal setting and focus, Gary has established and sponsored two nationally recognized events: Youth Goals Education Week, a unique opportunity for kids and teens to learn about goal setting and its influence on their future, and New Year's Resolutions Week, an insightful series of activities designed to encourage people to set goals for their lives.

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Gary Ryan Blair: Hi there, my name is Gary Ryan Blair, I am with The Goals Guy. Well, our goal is simply to help you, achieve yours. In todays lesson we are going to talked about the power of focus, specifically what it is, we define and explain to you how do you get focused, how you stay focused, how do you regain it.

We are talking about the empowerment and its relationship to focus. The connection between the choices and options. What happens when you try to ,multi-task. The importance truly of finding one line of sight, and there are numerous of the benefits that we will go through from the beginning to end. Now, before you do that, I am going to just tell you little bit of about myself, about the company, the back around and why you probably want to listen more closely. As I mentioned, the name of the company is The Goal Guys. What I do, is I focus in on businesses and individuals and help them to achieve their goals by providing with goal settings methodologies and a whole a series of strategic planning tools and resources. Today, we are doing work with more than 60% of the Fortune 500, with a number of professionals, sports teams, politicians, and athletes, entertainers, that we work with and I work with personally. Numbers of books that are in the market place at this point in time exceed more than four millions copies worldwide. This is a subject, I know quite well. I think you are going to find a tremendous amount of insightful information you could apply immediately to get results from.

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