Be it your home or your workplace, they are full of disruptions and disturbances. If you ever want to do anything in peace, rest assured that there will be interruptions. You may be able to still manage to do things at home, but at the office, it is rather difficult. Canteen gossips, corridor tattletale and office chitchats are bound to distract you. And if there is maintenance work going on or rearrangement in progress, the noises that you hear are in no way work facilitators.
Can you continue with your work and prove to be more fruitful despite distractions? Yes, you can! Principally, you should be able to plan your day in advance. If you have a timetable or a calendar of engagements, you will be able to fathom what you need time for across the day. In addition, you can also estimate your strengths and capabilities; and thus be able to expedite your work. You will get to appreciate what all issues you should be engaged with. Should you be speeding up, you will know when and for how long can you take a break.
The best way to schedule your day is to make a timetable, something that we all did at school when examinations were round the corner. Assign different tasks to yourself on an hourly basis. You will thus be doing different work and thus remain focused reasonably well.
Another important point is to not take your work as a liability. Let your job offer you happiness and delight. The tendency to grumble and criticize without much reason is something that knocks off devotedness. To make a criticism is a bit like complaining about the shape of the Pyramids. If you want to remain focused on your job, you must then know to derive enjoyment and delight from it.
Take your mind back to your school days. Didn’t we exert ourselves the maximum to get noticed? Didn’t we try to excel so that teachers and classmates felt impressed? There was no monetary prize for which we worked; it was all about securing good marks and in the process getting recognized. A pat on the back was perhaps all that one aspired for. Logically speaking, similar inducements and encouragements exist at the workplace. However we tend to ignore and neglect them, primarily because the lure of money weighs up on our minds more than anything else.
If we were to adopt the same attitude as we had when at school, we would be able to stay focused on our work and perform better. We will still get shows of approbation from our subordinates, colleagues and seniors alike. Experiencing such praise and admiration further help in remaining focused on work. We should remember that an invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. A large number of our colleagues meet with failure because of their inability to remain focused on their jobs.
This brings us to the issue of freewill. Extremely difficult to learn from anybody else, it has to come from within. Men and women who wile away their time at coffee vending machines and yours too by detaining you in purposeless corridor conversation perhaps do not realize their aimlessness. If you were to introspect and take a decision that come what may, you will not deviate from your focal point, your fortitude and resolve will register an upswing. In fact, your grit will manifest itself as your second nature. Monotony and boredom, if any will automatically get pushed to a dark corner.
Your daily work schedule will have challenges and tensions. Evidently, these are speed-breakers in achieving your goals and can retard your enthusiasm. But if you carry out self-appraisals periodically and understand the logic of your job, you will be able to focus your vigour on your work. Concurrently, you should imagine yourself reaping gains of your labour; by doing so, you will put in additional effort, which, is indicative of your focus. It is all about making a portrait of your aspirations; if it is complete, you will consciously and unconsciously are focused on attaining it.
It is very important to keep hold of the awe and surprise in your job. If you get pleasure doing the work you are in, your inspiration level will invariably be pitched at a higher level to complete outstanding tasks. You will long to confront new challenges; you will, in the process scale new heights. Remember that minute ingenuities total up to larger products; therefore, setting an objective for yourself help you in maintaining direction. You also acquire an apparatus to gauge your nearness to it.
Last but not the least, if you do a good job, make it a point to celebrate in some way or the other. By doing so, you keep the thrust and drive readily available up for grabs. Your inspiration and enthusiasm also remains together.
To sum up, if you seek to stay focused on your job, then ‘wherever you are, be there’.
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