Reviewed by Rama Gaind.
Mindset Mastery: Do Less. Achieve More
By Darren Fleming, Publish Central, $29.00
We all want to be free of any restrictions that impede our success. The biggest distraction we have in the workplace is not back-to-back meetings, endless e
mails or constant interruptions — it’s the noise in our head. This shows up when you can’t switch off, the mind wanders, there are sticky and off-task thoughts, catastrophising or fantasising,
Behavioural scientist Darren Fleming says the biggest distraction we have at work is inside our head.
“That voice constantly talking (or yelling) at us, giving us directions. It narrates our day, points out problems and tells us what to think. It’s reading these words to you now. It will go to the future and stress about something that has yet to happen, or it will revisit the past and try to change what went on. It might even play a high-rotation of a memory you’d rather forget.”
How can you be productive with that “noise” in your head. No wonder people are stressed!
What’s really happening is every thought we have has an amount of ‘mental momentum’. When we are distracted, it is because our mind is being triggered by either conscious or unconscious sensations in the body. To increase our ability to focus requires us to deactivate the thoughts that drive the sensations.
Mindset Mastery shows you how to do that.
As a peak performance specialist, Fleming shows how to disengage what drives us to distraction so you can have ‘greater inner peace, control and ultimately happiness in your day … without whacking anything’. He says it all comes down to understanding the energetic sensation in our body. If we get rid of that energetic sensation, then we won’t be drawn to check emails, be bothered by interferences or thoughts that keep us unfocused.
