Struggling to Focus? Here's Advice From World-Renowned Brain Coach Jim KwikHint: remove this one word from your vocabulary.

Focusbegins in the morning, Kwik says. And most entrepreneurs destroy it by reaching for their phones.

"When you wake up, you're in this relaxed state of awareness — it's the most relaxed you'll feel the entire day," he says. "When you pick up your device, you're rewiring your brain for two things — fordistraction, and then something even worse, reaction."