In the fast-paced digital age we live in, our ability to stay present and focused has become increasingly challenging. A simple way to create a healthy space in the mind which allows you to relax and always see the bigger picture is attention training. With distractions at every turn, it's essential to explore how we can regain control of our attention and foster meaningful human interactions. 

In this episode, we are thrilled to have Dr. Mary Meduna-Gross, an esteemed expert in the field of focus and success, returning as our special guest. Dr. Meduna-Gross introduces us to an innovative approach called "The Open Focus Approach," which offers powerful insights into how to transform our mindset and tap into our full potential, and the four styles of attention.

Join us as we explore the principles of this approach and discover how it can unlock new possibilities for success.

 
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Unlocking Your Potential: The Open Focus Approach to Success with Dr. Mary Meduna-Gross
Welcome to Action’s Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. Obviously, one really important aspect of anything that we engage in is what kind of mindset we bring in to something. There's a big difference between coming to an event where you're interacting with people but you're constantly pulling out your phone or pulling out your laptop or even getting distracted by every little thing that you see around you or have something prominent on your mind, something you're mad about, something you're really anxious about, versus being truly present somewhere. Today, I bring back to the program the second time, Dr. Mary Meduna-Gross, who you probably remember from a previous conversation, we talked a lot about having the mindset for success and what kind of thoughts we're putting through our head. Today, we're going to talk about a different new approach to how we're actually focusing.
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Mary, welcome to the program.

 

Oh, thank you. So good to be with you again.

 

It's always wonderful to talk to you, it's always wonderful to hear about all the different things that you're doing because you have a podcast of your own. 

 

Right. 

 

And the magazine that really is helping bring people of this type of mindset, of building something new, building something better together.

 

Exactly. The magazine, The ConsciousPreneur Magazine, is really all about conscious entrepreneurship. Validating these values of the conscious entrepreneur, you can build a successful business on them, that how do we do that, so lots of information on how to do that with some inspiration. The podcast I have now is Fully Alive and we dive specifically into mindset for leadership.

 

I know that this episode is mostly going to cover this open focus technique, as promised, but one thing I'm wondering as we're talking about conscious entrepreneurship and I've read conscious capitalism and some other similar books is is there still a lot of resistance to the idea that you can, through business, make an impact while also earning your money and everything else? Is there still a lot of people saying no from either one end saying, “No, business has to be business and being nice and being philanthropy, whatever, has to be separate,” or, “Your business has to focus only on it, you can’t consider all those shareholders,” is that still fully alive, not to use your podcast title, but is that still fully there, fully present in our society?

 

I think so. In fact, I had some conversations recently with some marketers. He was talking about the challenges that he was having in terms of shifting beliefs of his prospects and shift that one belief that I can have purpose or I can have profit but I can't do both.

 

Yeah. You said it so much better than I did.

 

Well, we got to the same point. Again, one of the reasons why I created this magazine was because I think there are a lot of us wh...