Constructing Efficacy
Mental Focus and the Use of Routines

Education can be used as a tool to create self-efficacy and confidence. With each task successfully accomplished, the higher the level of belief grows. The greater one's level of self-confidence the easier it is for that person to learn new things. With confidence comes the mental freedom to focus one's energy on learning the task at hand rather than on one's perceived deficiencies.

Mental focus is also a matter of mental discipline, this can be nurtured through the use of routines and regimen. The patience and attention that adhering to a routine requires is an excellent training method for the core competencies needed in life and learning. Routines cannot of course take the place of dynamic engagement in the world as it is not meant to. Routines are meant to encourage a systematic focus and fortitude when addressing changing reality. Routines create a stable platform from which to launch one's excursions into the unknown.