Focused, Optimal Thinking Reduces Distraction

As executives, we are always looking for new ways to make our minds more productive. These tips for optimizing your thinking will provide fresh fodder.

Do you have a strong sense that the whole world is fairly distracted these days? If a solar eclipse happens, this has an effect on many of us. The political storms raging has an effect on us. Is the media or an eclipse to blame, or have we permitted our minds to linger too long in distraction and away from our more significant decisions?

Are we judicious in what we allow into our minds, or do we open the floodgate and let it all in. We are not going to achieve our goals unless we learn what to focus upon and what to let go. This is dramatically true for negative influences in our life.

Rosalene Glickman, Ph.D. discusses this necessity in her intriguing book, Optimal Thinking, specifically in her chapter on Optimal Thinking: The Next Step Beyond Positive Thinking. According to Glickman, optimal thinkers:

- Accept what we can't control (like the weather, interest rates, and others' choices) and maximize what we can control.

- Embrace the present moment, trust our intuition, investigate the alternatives for solving our challenges, weigh their advantages and disadvantages and determine the best solution within the given time constraints.

- Select the optimal one and then let it rest. Having surrendered our best contribution, we can peacefully move on to the next important issue.

Maximize feelings, skill sets, associations, and the life style you choose.

Her point is of course to let go of distractions that don't pertain to you right now, in this moment. Instead, focus upon what does. Sound easy? With practice it can be.

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