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Focus.
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It is one of the core ingredients that determines if what you actually want becomes ultimately what you create.
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Because you can have a worthy goal, you can have an effective strategy, you can have all the potential in the world.
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But if you cannot keep your mind on what matters long enough to actually materialize it, then it is unlikely that it will become real.
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And most people trying to build focus or even tap into flow, they do it the wrong way.
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They often try to force it through discipline
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or they manage it through productivity systems or they protect it by removing distractions
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and those things they can help
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but they are missing the most powerful ingredient to access effortless focus your mind
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because focus it has an inner game and
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when you learn how to play it you stop fighting for your own attention
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and you effortlessly focus your mind to help turn your vision into results.
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So in this video, I am going to show you the mental mechanism that makes this possible.
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I'm going to show you how to activate it deliberately and why when you do, you do not just get more out of your time, you get more out of your life.
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Hi, I'm Jodi Jackson, a neuroconditioning specialist who uses neuroscience to train your brain for high performance
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so you can rewire reality for the results you most want.
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So let me begin by saying this, if you cannot direct your focus, you cannot direct your results.
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Well, you can't direct your results reliably at least.
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And here is why.
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Everything you create requires energy.
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Your goals require energy.
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Your ideas require energy.
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Turning something that exists in your imagination into something
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that exists in your reality, it requires energy
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and the more concentrated your focus the more powerful
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that energy becomes what do i mean
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so i want you to imagine a light bulb
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if you give energy to a light bulb it sends
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that energy out in a million different directions right
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and you have enough energy to actually light up a room
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but if you take that same amount of energy
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and you concentrate it into a laser it can cut through
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steel right it's the same energy in both the only difference is how focused
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that energy is that is what focus does for you it concentrates your attention
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and so it concentrates your energy powerfully enough to actually cut through what is
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and create what could be
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and the problem is most of us are living like light bulbs our attention
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and so our energy it is being scattered in a hundred different directions and
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so we need to ask ourselves then right the question becomes
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how do you become a laser instead of living like a
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light bulb how do you train your mind to concentrate its
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attention on what matters long enough to actually create it
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so there are two levels to focus right
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and the first is the level that most people teach
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and unfortunately it's also the level where most people stop right
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level one it is about removing distractions from your environment
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so turn off your phone notifications right put it in another
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room even block your calendar put periods in your calendar of uninterrupted work right remove distraction block your focus
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and all of that is useful in fact i recommend it
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but it is not what i am going to teach you in this video today
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because i don't just want to show you how to make distractions harder to access.
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I want to show you how to make distractions lose their power completely, right?
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There is a big difference because one changes what's happening around you and the other it changes what's happening within you.
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Because think about it, have you ever been so absorbed in something that the rest of the world seemed to disappear, right?
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Maybe there was a project that you just couldn't pull yourself away from.
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Maybe there was a conversation that you just did not want to end.
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Or maybe there was something that you were so determined to finish that hours passed by without you even noticing.
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In those situations, nobody had to tell you to focus.
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You were not fighting distraction.
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You weren't forcing yourself to concentrate.
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Your mind had simply decided this matters more.
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That is the level of focus that I want to teach you in this video and how you can access it.
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Because the highest level of focus, it is not created by constantly protecting yourself from everything that might steal your attention.
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It is created when your mind becomes so directed towards what matters
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that everything else begins to lose its significance
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and here is the amazing part your brain it already has the mechanism designed to help you do exactly
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that right you don't need to create it it exists you just need to learn how to direct it
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and activate it in fact let me show you
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so right now i would love you to look at the dot in the center of the screen
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so keep your eyes focused on it do not look anywhere else just keep looking at
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that one point that center point right
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and notice as your eyes are fixed as they are focused
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as they are locked in right keep your eyes focused on it
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and notice just in your peripheries notice the other dots beginning to disappear and what's incredible
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is they haven't actually gone anywhere right those dots are still
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there you just stopped seeing them they stopped being significant
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because you had something that you were fixed and focused on right and
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that is what i want you to understand about focus you
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don't always have to remove the distraction you can train your mind to become
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so directed towards what matters
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that everything else it just begins to fall out of focus
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your mind just begins to delete it it is less relevant
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it is less significant it doesn't exist in the same way
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right it doesn't necessarily disappear from your environment it just disappears from your focus
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so your brain already has mechanisms designed to help protect your
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focus you just need to learn how to activate them on command
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so there are three things
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that you need to do to start mastering the inner game
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of focus right number one give your mind a target right most people struggle with focus
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not because they lack attention it is because they lack intention
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and what do i mean
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when i say intention intention is simply knowing what you want
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to create before you begin it is giving your mind a
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target of where it is you want it to go
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and this step it's not complicated there is a reason why
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almost every philosophy of achievement comes back to the same basic
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principle know what you want have a goal in mind
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because your mind it needs to know what matters before it
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can begin to prioritize it your brain cannot protect a target
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that you haven't given it so you have to give it a target
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if you don't have one everything competes for your attention
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that email may feel important the notification that pops up may feel important that thought
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that just popped into your head may feel important right everything has the potential to grab your attention
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but the moment you set a clear intention right you give your mind a target something to prioritize
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and something against which everything else becomes less important, right?
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This is why intention is so powerful because most people, they think they have a distraction problem.
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Often, they just have a direction problem, right?
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They haven't clearly decided this is the direction, this is the target, this is what matters now.
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So I have a whole video on how decisions direct your results.
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I'll drop it in the notes below, right?
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So that is number one, you give your mind a target.
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And the second thing that you need to be able to master the inner game of focus, right?
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Once you've given your mind a target, you have to give that target meaning, right?
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You need to emotionally connect to it.
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You see, your brain, it does not respond equally to everything you've asked it to focus on.
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Some things naturally pull your attention more than others.
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And that is the part we want to play with, naturally, right?
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It is not effortful.
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Why?
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Because they mean something to you.
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So remember earlier when I asked you to think about those moments, right?
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When you have been so absorbed in something that everything else just kind of seemed to disappear.
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If that happened, chances are you were emotionally driven by it or emotionally connected to it, right?
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Because the more deeply something matters to you, the more naturally your attention is drawn towards it.
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And this is something you can train.
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In fact, this is a huge part of the work that I do with my clients.
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We don't just train what they do and what they go after.
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We train how they feel about what they do.
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When something feels meaningless, you have to push yourself towards it.
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And even if you achieve it, it can feel pretty unfulfilling.
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But when something feels deeply meaningful, right, it begins to pull you towards it.
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And it's a completely different experience.
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And that is something that you can do deliberately.
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And this does not have to be a long process.
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It can be as simple as asking yourself the following four
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questions number one what do you want what is the target the goal what's the result right something
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that you want to be able to do or be
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or have and then you need to go one step deeper than the outcome itself
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so you ask yourself how would it feel to complete this right what feeling sits on the other side
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and don't get in your head don't over analyze just connect to what it would feel like Thank you.
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What emotion is on the other side of that result?
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Is it relief?
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Is it pride?
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Is it freedom?
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Is it excitement?
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What is the emotion that sits the other side of that result?
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And then ask yourself, what would achieving this actually mean about me?
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What would it mean about you?
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About what you're capable of?
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About what kind of leader or person you are becoming?
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What qualities will you have built in yourself to actually be
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worthy of achieving this result right who have you become in the process
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and then the last question is who else benefits
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when you show up focused when you deliver on this
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when you bring your best who feels the impact of
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that is it your team your family your clients the people
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that you lead or the people that you serve who else benefits
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because you took action because you showed up because you achieved the result
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that you wanted just hold them your mind for a moment
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in fact hold them in your heart for a moment right
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and when you do this and i can drop a visualization
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so that i can help you emotionally charge it but
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when you do this the outcome that you want it hasn't changed
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but your relationship to it has right
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and this is what makes it easier to naturally guide your focus towards it
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and because what you're doing becomes more meaningful distractions become more meaningless
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so don't just give your mind a target give your target meaning
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that is number two and then that brings us on to step number three
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because you can know exactly what you want you can be deeply connected to why it matters
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and you can still lose your focus right
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which is why the third thing you need to do is
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condition it right you repeat it until it becomes automatic
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because anything that you do automatically today you once had to do consciously
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so if you think about driving right
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when you first learned to drive everything required your attention everything
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felt like effort the mirrors the gears the pedals the road everything right your hands in the right position
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and it was exhausting
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and now you don't even have to think about it you never have to remember how to drive
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and what changed is that you repeated it you did it consciously again
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and again and again until your mind learned the pattern well enough to actually do it automatically
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and it is exactly the same with focus
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but often people do it the wrong way around right they practice distraction all day
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and then they wonder why focus feels difficult because every time you allow your attention to jump from one thing to another, to another, you are training the pattern of distraction.
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But the opposite is also true.
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You can train focus to become the dominant pattern of your mind.
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How?
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You keep giving your mind a target.
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You keep connecting to why it matters and you do it again and again and again, right?
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What am I actually trying to achieve?
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What needs my focus right now why does it matter what
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does it mean who else benefits right make it meaningful let
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it juice you up let it make your soul salivate right you make this a habit of thinking
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and as you develop a habit of thinking this way you begin to develop a habit of focus
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and if you repeat it enough eventually you don't have to try
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so hard so that is the goal you set a target you give it meaning
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and you repeat it until your mind learns the pattern right
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that is how you become a laser you stop relying on
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things like willpower to hold your attention in place right
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or removing distractions you hold your attention in place with meaning
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and you return to
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that meaning repeatedly until your mind begins to work in your
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favor helping filter your attention helping you focus more effortlessly on
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what matters long enough to make what you want become what you have.
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And if you would like to train your mind with me, you can find the links below.
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Life is a team sport.
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I am in your corner.
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I will see you in the next video.
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Wortschatz und Sprechhinweise zu dieser Lektion
Diese Sprechübung auf Niveau B2 basiert auf dem Video „How To Make Your Mind WANT To Focus“. Diese Wörter kommen am häufigsten vor: focus, attention, target, energy, distraction. Dieses Video enthält 207 Sätze und 2423 Wörter zum Nachsprechen. Der gesprochene Teil dauert 13:57. Der Sprecher spricht in natürlichem Tempo, etwa 174 Wörter pro Minute, ähnlich wie im Alltagsgespräch. 90 % der Wörter gehören zu den 3.000 häufigsten im Englischen, der Wortschatz ist also leicht zu verfolgen.
Wichtiger Wortschatz in diesem Video
Die 15 anspruchsvollsten Wörter aus dem Video, mit Aussprache und Bedeutung:
| Wort | Aussprache | Bedeutung |
|---|---|---|
| distraction Substantiv | /dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/ | Ablenkung, Ablenkungsmanöver |
| concentrate Verb | /ˈkɑn.sən.tɹeɪt/ | konzentrieren, sich konzentrieren |
| disappear Verb | /dɪsəˈpɪɹ/ | verschwinden, entschwinden |
| bulb Substantiv | /ˈbʌlb/ | Zwiebel |
| emotionally Adverb | /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/ | emotional |
| activate Verb | /ˈæktɪˌveɪt/ | aktivieren, freischalten |
| meaningful Adjektiv | /ˈmiː.nɪŋ.fl̩/ | bedeutend, bedeutungsvoll |
| laser Substantiv | /ˈleɪzɚ/ | Laser |
| effortlessly Adverb | /ˈɛf.ɚt.ləs.li/ | mühelos |
| prioritize Verb | /pɹaɪˈɒɹ.ə.taɪz/ | nach Wichtigkeit aufreihen, nach Wichtigkeit anordnen |
| consciously Adverb | bewusst, wissentlich | |
| meaningless Adjektiv | /ˈmiː.nɪŋ.ləs/ | sinnlos, bedeutungslos |
| ingredient Substantiv | /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/ | Zutat |
| absorb Verb | /æbˈsɔɹb/ | absorbieren, (in sich) aufnehmen |
| notification Substantiv | /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/ | Benachrichtigung |
Phrasal Verbs, die du hören wirst
| Wort | Bedeutung |
|---|---|
| show up Verb | auftauchen, erscheinen |
| light up Verb | erhellen, erleuchten |
| pop up Verb | auftauchen, aufkreuzen |
| turn off Verb | ausschalten, abschalten |
Sätze zum Wiederholen
Kurze, vollständige Sätze aus dem Video, die du im Alltag wiederverwenden kannst:
- You weren't forcing yourself to concentrate.
- I'll drop it in the notes below, right?
- What would it mean about you?
- About what you're capable of?
- What am I actually trying to achieve?
Grammatik in diesem Video
Die Strukturen, die der Sprecher am häufigsten verwendet, mit den genauen Worten aus dem Video:
| Struktur | Im Video |
|---|---|
| Present Perfect have/has + Partizip Perfekt – eine vergangene Handlung, die jetzt noch wichtig ist | haven't actually gone · haven't given · you've given |
| Passiv be + Partizip Perfekt – wichtig ist, was geschieht, nicht wer es tut | being scattered · is not created · is created |
Aussprache, auf die du achten solltest
Der Sprecher verwendet 26 Kurzformen und abgeschwächte Formen, zum Beispiel don't, haven't, doesn't. Sprich sie in der kurzen Form, so wie du sie hörst.
- Die Laute „sh“ und „zh“: distraction /dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/, emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/, emotion /ɪˈməʊ.ʃən/, visualization /ˌvɪʒ.ʊ.ə.laɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
- Lange Wörter – auf die Betonung achten: emotionally /ɪˈməʊʃənəli/, effortlessly /ˈɛf.ɚt.ləs.li/, prioritize /pɹaɪˈɒɹ.ə.taɪz/, ingredient /ɪnˈɡɹiːdi.ənt/, notification /ˌnoʊtɪfɪˈkeɪʃn̩/
Laute, die Deutschsprachigen schwerfallen:
- /w/ — mit runden Lippen, nicht wie das deutsche „w“ (/v/): rewire /ɹiːˈwaɪə(ɹ)/, willpower /ˈwɪlˌpaʊɚ/
- Stimmhafter Auslaut — /b/, /d/, /g/, /z/, /v/ am Wortende nicht verhärten: bulb /ˈbʌlb/, prioritize /pɹaɪˈɒɹ.ə.taɪz/, absorb /æbˈsɔɹb/, materialize /məˈtɪɹiəlaɪz/, analyze /ˈæn.əˌlaɪz/
- /æ/ — offener als „ä“: distraction /dɪsˈtɹæk.ʃən/, activate /ˈæktɪˌveɪt/, absorb /æbˈsɔɹb/, salivate /ˈsæləveɪt/, scatter /ˈskætɚ/
So übst du mit diesem Video
- Höre dir das ganze Video einmal an, ohne zu sprechen, und notiere die Wörter, die du nicht kennst.
- Beginne mit 0,75-facher Geschwindigkeit, sprich Satz für Satz nach und wechsle zur normalen Geschwindigkeit, sobald es leichtfällt.
- Nimm dich auf und vergleiche mit dem Original; achte dabei auf Wörter wie distraction, concentrate, disappear.
Was ist die Shadowing-Technik?
Shadowing ist eine wissenschaftlich fundierte Sprachlerntechnik, die ursprünglich für die professionelle Dolmetscherausbildung entwickelt und durch den Polyglotten Dr. Alexander Arguelles populär gemacht wurde. Die Methode ist einfach aber wirkungsvoll: Du hörst englisches Audio von Muttersprachlern und wiederholst es sofort laut — wie ein Schatten, der dem Sprecher mit nur 1–2 Sekunden Verzögerung folgt. Anders als passives Hören oder Grammatikübungen zwingt Shadowing dein Gehirn und deine Mundmuskulatur, gleichzeitig echte Sprachmuster zu verarbeiten und zu reproduzieren. Studien zeigen, dass es Aussprachegenauigkeit, Intonation, Rhythmus, verbundene Sprache, Hörverständnis und Sprechflüssigkeit signifikant verbessert — was es zu einer der effektivsten Methoden für die IELTS Speaking-Vorbereitung und reale englische Kommunikation macht.