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Learn to focus on the process more than the results

Learn to focus on the process more than the results

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It removes all distractions

It removes all distractions

  1. The moment you begin to focus on activities or tasks to do in order to get to where you need to be, you will begin to stop paying attention to all the distractions diverting your attention away from your current goal.
  2. That is how the process works. You will begin to identify what is important to you, know what is wasting your time, and you will make focused steps to advance yourself towards your goal.

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You start to enjoy the work in this present moment

You start to enjoy the work in this present moment

  1. Having your eye on the results has a way of making you dislike the work you have to do to get it.
  2. That is because you are looking at the lack or absence of the result at this present moment.
  3. But on the other hand, when you begin to pay attention to the process and focus on building the skills that you need to use in order to get the results, you will begin to enjoy the process.
  4. You will begin to live in the present and begin to enjoy the moment.
  5. This will also even lead you to start experimenting with your work, more willing to try long shots, to experiment, open to serendipity, you learn and evolve, finding different, easier and more efficient ways to do things.

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You take control

You take control

  1. An outlook focusing on the ‘results’ is mainly an outlook based on external factors.
  2. When you focus on external factors as the basis for your happiness or motivation, you will only retain part of the control that you could have. You leave the important part to someone else or something else.
  3. But the moment you switch from external factors to internal factors you will begin to take FULL control of your progress.
  4. ‘Whether you give your best effort or not is entirely within your power’ and you will soon realize this.
  5. You will feel empowered.

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Builds confidence in you

Builds confidence in you

  1. The moment you realize that whether you achieve your goal or not is entirely up to you, is the moment upon which you hand over the keys of building your self-confidence from someone else and place them into your own hands.
  2. An approach derived on working and not complaining will make you start working on your skills in order to make them better. This will in turn build a sense of confidence in you.
  3. You’ll worry less about the future because you’ll know that you’ll be happy regardless of the outcome of any given situation or event.
  4. You’ll become free to get out of your comfort zone, to be spontaneous and take risks.
  5. And being unattached to a specific outcome means you won’t be needy, or get upset when things don’t go as you had hoped.

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You will start to appreciate the results a lot more

You will start to appreciate the results a lot more

  1. Results that are earned by means of using shortcuts and that are earned easily are taken for granted.
  2. But once you take the time to really put in the work and pay attention to the process to move yourself a step closer to your goal, you will appreciate the results a lot more.
  3. Nothing makes you appreciate anything more than working and earning it, no matter how much we try to believe otherwise.
  4. Without knowing how to handle failure or setbacks, we will never appreciate success when it presents itself.

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