Focus: Flick the F*ck It Switch, #2

By Nicoline Huizinga

Too many ideas and no implementation? Discover your own way to focus and get things done!

 

Waste time scrolling thoughtlessly on social media? Don't get things done because no one cares whether you've finished or not? Keep on buying another course or program that you believe will solve your problems? 

 

Nicoline Huizinga spent way too much time not getting the results she was after until that pivotal moment that changed her entire perspective on productivity and getting things done. Now she's here to share how you can regain your focus, even if you only have an hour a day to get things done.

 

Flick the F*ck It Switch – FOCUS offers a sigh of relief for people who find it hard to follow time management and productivity tips to find focus in their day. Nicoline's conversational tone, Dutch directness and honest personal examples will give you the right tools for you to finally build the momentum in your business.

 

In Flick the F*ck It Switch – FOCUS, you will discover:

• How to find a definition of focus that will be yours
• Insights and ideas that are seemingly unrelated to focus, but turn out to be essential for focus after all
• Practical tools to break down your goals into feasible tasks
• Why some 'standard' tools for focus don't work for you
• What tools to use when you feel overwhelmed or unfocused

Flick the F*ck It Switch – FOCUS is the lifeline you need for focus in your business. If you like practical tips and tricks, motivational kicks and personal stories, then you'll love Nicoline Huizinga's un-sugarcoated insights. 

 

Buy Flick the F*ck it Switch – FOCUS today to get more done that before!

• Language: English
• Publisher: PersonalEyes
• Release date: May 10, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393601944

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Nicoline Huizinga

Flick the Fuck It Switch - Focus

Do the right things at the right time

First published by PersonalEyes/nicolinehuizinga.com 2021

Copyright © 2021 by Nicoline Huizinga

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For those who struggle to get things done

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgement

1. Introduction

2. Finding The F*ck It Switch

3. Are You Ready To Focus?

4. The Success Trap

5. Small Steps & Big Pictures

6. Blueprint Versus Roadmap

7. Goals, Intentions And Actions

8. To Do or Not To Do

9. Break It Down

10. The multi-tasking myth

11. Concentrate, Not Deviate

12. If Not Now, When?

13. Rescue Remedy For Focus

14. No (Wo)Man Is An Island

15. 1% each day

About the Author

Also by Nicoline Huizinga

Foreword

Have you ever seen a dog stare down a ball?

No matter what is happening around him, the noise, the juicy steak, even his pleading owner, he will not budge, he will not divert his eyes, his brain is locked and loaded and there exists nothing else in his entire universe.

Now that’s focus!

For a dog.

Well, for a German Shepherd.

My dog Pepper, a Cairn Terrier, can also focus on the orange and blue ball. Well, until any hint of a small animal (mouse, frog, or anything that even might look or act like such an animal) comes within even the furthest of corners of his not-very-good peripheral vision.

Yet, he too, is focused in his own way.

But he’s a dog, too.

A Cairn Terrier.

This book is not for dogs. It’s not called, How to Get Your Cairn Terrier to Focus Like a German Shepherd.

This book is for you.

Before I met Nicoline, I was striving to be like that German Shepherd. I thought I needed to have the unflinching, laser-targeted focus where nothing else mattered and nothing could pull me away from the task at hand.

But in reality, I was much more like Pepper.

Squirrel!

Nicoline taught me about Human Design and I learned that I was a Manifesting Generator. As such, not only was it allowed for me to divert from the main task at hand with a side project, it was encouraged.

Well, I thought, "This is my kind of focus!"

For me, for years, I thought I wasn’t focused because of all of my side projects. Apparently, as a Manifesting Generator, I needed to let off some steam, to use some of my boundless energy on smaller projects possibly (and probably) unrelated to my main focus or goal. At the same time, I’m not losing focus on my main or bigger direction.

In fact, those detours allow me to improve my focus on the main goal. If I had tried to be the German Shepherd and failed, I might have gotten stuck, frustrated, and quit both the detour and the big goal.

You are probably not an actual German Shepherd reading this. I’m also fairly certain you are not Pepper. And I know with 100% certainty you are not me.

You are you and there is only one of you.

We each have our own, individual definitions and interpretations of what focus means to each of us.

In the following pages of this book, Nicoline is not going to give you only one single definition of focus. It won’t be a roadmap from, say, Amsterdam to Rome, that only has one possible configuration that says you must go through Munich and then Milan.

What Nicoline will do, however, is get you to your goal, she will help you hone your focus so that whatever detours you may encounter—or even create—she will get you to Rome in the way that’s best for you.

In this book, Nicoline will not give a definition that must apply to you and if you don’t follow it you’re a failure. She has come to the conclusion that focus is different for everyone. Yes, there are guiding principles. Yes, there is a roadmap with guardrails or guidelines.

But according to who you are, the rules will be different. This knowledge has been enlightening.

Chances are, you picked up this book because you could use some help with focus, with achieving your goals, maybe with getting frustrated with too many distractions or side hustles.

My goal, my focus for this foreword, is to liberate you from the idea that focus is one size fits all, that only one road leads to Rome, that there is only one definition of focus and that you must follow that and only that to get where you’re going.

Focus, once mastered, once you find out how to make it work for you, is a powerful and boundless energy and you can harness it to your benefit.

Nicoline’s secret is in teaching us what focus means, how we can best use it, and in helping you find your unique focus.

Nicoline is going to get us to our destination. And we will learn to be more focused. When you find out what focus means for you, you can use it to break free of the constraints. This book will relieve you from the asylum of narrow definitions of focus.

Now, I’m going to get back to whatever it was I was doing before I sat down to write this foreword.

Squirrel!

Bradley Charbonneau

January, 2021

Preface

When I published my first book Flick the F*ck It Switch - Courage, I intended to publish the other three books in the series every three months that followed the first book. Others do it too, so why not?

I forgot that there was a major thing about to happen in about two months after I would publish the book. We would start the renovation of our new home, and we were supposed to move during the summer. And like many people who make a planning or a To Do list, I underestimated how time it all would take, and how hard it would be to focus on anything else but that.

The renovation was a huge project. Luckily, we had a great contractor to help us do the heavy lifting, but it’s no joke when your entire house gets stripped down to bare walls and floors and even those got removed and