In last month’s newsletter, my good friend and colleague, David alerted you to the toxic games’ we play that prevent us living the life we deserve. David set you the challenge of identifying some of these games, how did you go? Did you spot any of these? – “It’s too hard game”, or the “It’s not fair game”, or the “I’m not good enough game”. Maybe you identified a completely different game that may have benefited you in the past but no longer serves you.
Today I want to talk to you about the Genius Game, a game to play for your own Personal Genius. We are all born with the seed that contains the potential for our own genius. What we do with this seed is a choice that will shape the very quality of our life’s experiences. At school or university we are taught what to think and how to do things, we are rarely taught how to think in order to develop our focus, creativity, motivation and other facets of genius. You can learn to access your personal genius by choosing your frames of mind would you like that? Would you use it?
OK, let’s try this out with one of the pre-requisites of genius, the ability to focus. Have you ever been working on a project but continually got distracted or interrupted and then lost your train of thought? What if you could just access that state of focus at will? You can, and here’s how:
First, mentally access a time when you were really focused; to do that go back in your mind to a specific event when you can remember being in the state of focus. Fully step into that feeling, notice the muscle tension of focus, how you breathe and how your vision is zeroed in on the subject of your focus. You probably will notice that all that internal mental chatter has gone quiet.
Now imagine a bubble surrounding you, you might like to give it a colour that would indicate focus to you. Fill that bubble with the feeling of being focused, your reasons for being focused, what being focused means to you. Enjoy that feeling for a full minute. Can you remember this feeling? Can you give yourself a cue to return to this feeling whenever you need it, such as a word or a gesture? Good.
Now, imagine stepping out of the bubble, look around, let other things grab your attention. OK, now imagine stepping back into your focus bubble and be surprised how quickly you can re-access that focused state. Practice this as many times as you need to so that you have this state at your fingertips. Great, now next time you need to focus step into your bubble first.
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