{"id":256,"date":"2012-01-24T16:27:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-24T21:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ysoys.org\/?p=256"},"modified":"2012-01-24T16:30:43","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T21:30:43","slug":"three-hbr-approved-steps-to-improve-your-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ysoys.org\/?p=256","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Twitter Foursquare Shopbop Spotify Instagram Just a&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Shopbop, Spotify, Instagram: Just a few of my favorite ways to waste time.<\/p>\n<p>As fun as the innovation economy has been, it&#8217;s also created a lot of distractions. \u00a0Have trouble focusing? \u00a0Here&#8217;s three great tips from <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/cs\/2012\/01\/train_your_brain_to_focus.html\">Harvard Business Review:<\/a><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Stay Positive: <\/strong>Feeling out of control? Your emotions may be out of balance. Psychologist <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/peplab\/barb_fredrickson_page.html\">Barbara Frederickson<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>advocates for a 3:1 ration btw positive and negative feelings. \u00a0So if you&#8217;re feeling down, find some time to mediate, exercise, or jot down a few things you are grateful for: it will help.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Apply the Breaks: W<\/strong>ith the ABC method: (1) <strong>Be Aware <\/strong>of the distractions around you; (2) <strong>Breathe! \u00a0<\/strong>and consider your options, and (3) <strong>Make a choice: <\/strong>Now that you&#8217;ve slowed down your brain a bit.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shift Sets: <\/strong>Sometimes you just need a break! \u00a0Go walk around the building: letting your mind rest while your body get&#8217;s it&#8217;s move on will leave you feeling fresh and creative.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/cs\/2012\/01\/train_your_brain_to_focus.html\">Read all the tips here<\/a>,\u00a0zen out, and regain your focus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook, Twitter, Foursquare, Shopbop, Spotify, Instagram: Just a few of my favorite ways to waste time. As fun as the innovation economy has been, it&#8217;s also created a lot of distractions. \u00a0Have trouble focusing? \u00a0Here&#8217;s three great tips from Harvard Business Review: Stay Positive: Feeling out of control? Your emotions may be out of balance. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[22,20,19,21,18],"class_list":["post-256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-balance","tag-focus","tag-hbr","tag-positive-energy","tag-productivity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p24oT3-48","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ysoys.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ysoys.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ysoys.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ysoys.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ysoys.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ysoys.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":260,"href":"https:\/\/ysoys.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256\/revisions\/260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ysoys.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ysoys.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ysoys.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}