Too many choices kills your engagement #EngagingScreenagers

Too many choices kills your engagement #EngagingScreenagers

Too many opportunities? Don’t know what to decide?

Yesterday I blogged about being so busy (dissociating) you can’t live life, so today I will talk about lack of focus, or in other words, too many opportunities that distract us.

Hey there, Dr Warren here…

Lack of focus keeps us from engaging (keeps us in a dissociating state) in what is most important in life.

Again, the high-achievers have clear focus to build their optimal lifestyles.

Not Dissociating (i.e. Living in the moment) is Life Skill #2 according to World Life Skills Expert Jill Raiguel.

It wasn’t too long ago that most of us didn’t have a lot of choices as to our careers and futures.

There was school, college, or getting into a family business.

Wasn’t just a ton of more options than that!

Today, we’re bombarded with info and opportunity.

It can be hard to choose. We want a handful of everything.

We don’t want to miss out.

I’m reminded of a few fables…

The man who chases two rabbits, catches neither one.

There’s a lot of truth to that!

There’s another story of a donkey that’s standing halfway between a pile of hay and a bucket of water.

He keeps looking left to the hay, and then right to the water, trying to decide.

Hay or water, hay or water?

He’s unable to decide, and eventually falls over dead of hunger and thirst.

With just a little bit of insight, he would have realized he could clearly go drink the water.

And then walk over and eat the hay.

But you can’t do both at once, right?

So, in short?

We can do anything in life we want to do. But we can only pick one thing at a time.

We can’t chase two rabbits at once.

That’ll just get us tired and hungry!

Lots of ways we can apply this in our lives, isn’t there?

This is one reason why the business model I use works extremely well.

Building an autopilot lifestyle has lots of moving parts to it usually.

Automation, outsourcing, eliminating, delegating, and on and on it goes.

===> This system allows you to focus on one thing to create your optimal engaged lifestyle with automation and great income.

After you define your target, you’ll just have one focus that can get you to your first milestone of up to 10 freedom hours in a week.

Nice, right? ?

Just focus on ONE RABBIT.

And may we not be like the “donkey.”

All the Best,

Warren Linger

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Engagement background before eWorkbooks

As a trainer and university lecturer in the USA, I had great success in my coaching, training, and classrooms by engaging my learners in ways I had learned from my Dale Carnegie Instructor Training. (optimal engagement)

After earning my Doctoral Degree researching engaging instruction in adult education and training and development, I started a training business in Hong Kong.

But something was wrong, I was struggling in this new culture (I’m a cattle rancher’s son from Colorado, USA) to find ways to inspire and motivate my coachees and students in Hong Kong.

With my coachees and in the classroom, I preferred having clients engage in learning activities instead of just talking. This is especially effective to keep clients engaged between coaching calls.  

I struggled through trying several paper worksheets and workbooks to guide students, but I wasn’t getting the results I wanted. (junk engagement)

When the smart phone with the ability to search the internet came along, I could see my clients were curating (i.e. searching, finding, collecting, commenting, changing, remixing, and sharing.)

I thought, “Why not do that for learning?”, so I started asking them to answer questions, interact with information and colleagues, and go find examples of the learning content using their mobile devices.

eWorkbook development and success

I began searching for possibilities and I struggled testing several apps, until we created best practices using eWorkbooks, and after testing them, began to use eWorkbooks as my clients always had their devices with them.

Then we used eWorkbooks (Google Forms with the training slides as well as interactive questions, curating links and tasks, example images and videos, etc.) This became powerful for my coaching clients as they were able to share ideas and get the benefits of social learning even though they were not in the training course or classroom.

My clients [Engaging Screenagers] completed eWorkbooks using their mobile devices as they were learning interactively while, at the same time, they were developing habits of learning with their devices (optimal engagement) instead of killing time with them. (junk engagement)

Students used eWorkbooks to while I lead the discussion and guided them, and after they submitted their answers, they would get their responses sent to their inbox so they could review their learning Moments of Growth. (optimal engagement)

Because the students’ responses from eWorkbooks go right into a spreadsheet in real-time, as the teacher I can monitor what students are doing to give them guidance in the moment, as well as track their learning develop over time.

Since those early days, I’ve had great luck supporting my coaching clients and entrepreneur friends use Google forms for 360° reviews for evaluations as well as use eBrochures and eMenus to test new ideas and actively engage and actively interact with customers.

Too many choices kills your engagement #EngagingScreenagers

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