"Part of the preparation involves focusing your mind properly before going to sleep," Margarida said.

The more technical method of achieving simplicity involves focusing on the subject while ensuring the background is unfocused.

That involved focusing its campaign in each market on two Irish whiskies, with Jameson as the linchpin.

The first two involve focusing the mind by repeating a word or phrase (known as a "mantra") continuously for 10 to 20 minutes.

Attention is a mental process that involves focusing on selected aspects of external events, internal events, or stimuli.

In the House races, he said, this would involve focusing on 20 to 30 contests in which Democrats are deemed most vulnerable.

Concentrated listening involves focusing on tone of voice, facial expression and body language as well as the words used.

This latter type of response involves narrowly focusing and ruminating on one's negative emotions.

Figure 2 shows a more complicated grating configuration that involves focusing elements, here depicted as lenses.

"Our way of managing involves focusing on people as individuals."