Pedram Shojai OMD - Focus: Bringing Time, Energy, and Money into Flow

Dr. Shojai cuts through the static to help you focus your life on the things that are specifically most important to you. His step-by-step plan for having your focus and intention guide you will bring fulfillment and satisfaction with the choices you make and the life you lead. If you want to be healthy and full of life, youll need an operating system that supports those decisions each day. This book will help you do just that.

Mark Hyman, M.D.,New York Times best-selling author of Food; Eat Fat, Get Thin; and The Blood Sugar Solution

Do you know where you put your energy? If not, how are you going to get the life you want? This book gives you the plan and the energy budget you need to get there.

Dave Asprey, New York Times best-selling author of The Bulletproof Diet

We all know what we need to do but simply dont follow through with it. Focus is the missing ingredient in the health world weve been waiting for. With this mind-body framework, Dr. Shojai elegantly lays out a roadmap to success thats easy to follow and very effective. I highly recommend this book.

JJ Virgin, nutrition expert and New York Times best-selling author of The Virgin Diet

Becoming an optimal performer means having a mental operating system that is focused, drives you forward, and creates a framework for success. How do we organize our lives to actually do just that? Pedram has cracked the code and solved that riddle in a powerful way. Willpower alone wont get you there. But there is a Holy Grail that Dr. Shojai shares in Focus. This book is a must-read.

Ben Greenfield, founder of Ben Greenfield Fitness and Kion and New York Times best-selling author of Boundless

Everyone wants to be a 10 in life, where health equals 10, abundance equals 10, and relationships equal 10. But reality is often a downer. Our birthright is to live a life full of vitality, vigor, and abundant energy. But often our day-to-day has gotten in the way. Whether you want to increase your number, up your game, or biohack your life, Focus is an excellent guide.

Tom OBryan, D.C., CCN, DACBN, author of The Autoimmune Fix

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Copyright 2020 by Pedram Shojai

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Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4019-6037-7

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To Elmira, Sol, and Sophia.
All of my love... always.

Life is a funny thing. We never really stop to think about it because were too busy living it.

Living life.

There are lots of people doing that... well, kind of.

People are eating, sleeping, working, procreating, and driving. They are getting news on their phones, binge-watching shows, and drinking coffee to get through their days.

They are hustling to make a living, looking forward to vacations, and pushing their kids to buy into that same narrative so they can work hard and have a better life.

I guess we can call all of that living life, but lets take a moment and examine the root of these two words: live and life.

Live (the root of living)the primary definition in the dictionary for this is to remain alive.

At first glance it seems like a pretty low bar, but lets think about it. The statement implies an incredibly miraculous symphony of trillions of biological functions that have to work together in harmony and symbiosis with the trillions of other life forms around us to keep our bodies humming. It doesnt account for the spark of life or consciousness that imbues this meat suit that keeps the lights on, or at the very least is somehow aware that were alive.

This definition puts mere survival at center stage for us and, to be fair, that was the dominant theme for our species for centuries, before we got smarter and richer. We have neither huge fangs nor body armor, like many of the animals out there do. We grew brains and harnessed fire to gain some edge and survive in a pretty harsh environment with drought, predators, and marauding invaders from other tribes. If we made it, we would continue to live.

This definition of the verb live essentially means to continue to exist.

Where? Well, I guess here.

When? It must mean now.

If youre not here, like on this planet, then you are not livingat least not here.

And in terms of time, if youre not here right now, then you either existed in the past and are now dead or have not been born yet... neither of which would allow you to be here reading this book.

This may all sound trite, but I ask that you humor me. Its the very act of deconstructing what we take for granted that allows for cracks in the concretefor a glimpse into the deeper realm that weve been trained to look away from. In fact, were currently living at a time when many of the people stumbling around us are completely unconsciousHungry Ghosts as the Buddhists would call them. They are concerned with the superficial things in life and never stop to think about what this thing called life is really about.

Lets look at the word lifeanother throwaway word thats rooted in the deepest miracle of all.

Here are the top four definitions of life from Oxfords online dictionary:

1. The condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death.

   the origins of life

2. The existence of an individual human being or animal.

   a disaster that claimed the lives of 266 Americans

3. The period between the birth and death of a living thing, especially a human being.

   she has lived all her life in the country

4. Vitality, vigor, or energy.

   she was beautiful and full of life