The phrase "avoid focusing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when advising someone to not concentrate on a specific aspect or detail, often to encourage a broader perspective.
Example: "In this discussion, we should avoid focusing on minor details and instead look at the overall picture."
Alternatives: "steer clear of concentrating" or "refrain from emphasizing".
Brazil need to improve and avoid focusing everything on Neymar.
But if they want economic prosperity for all, they should avoid focusing on the politics of envy.
But they would be more liquid and avoid focusing investor attention on America's potential solvency in 2110.
But avoid focusing too heavily on it; you don't want to give your potential employer the impression that you might be happy remaining in academic life (unless you're applying for an academic job, of course).
You'll meet someone happy to embark on an alternative route to parenting, but to achieve that you must avoid focusing on this to the detriment of other aspects of your relationship.
The filmmakers are circumspect in what they show, taking care to avoid focusing on the wounded and the dead, but the impact of battlefield death and injury has rarely been captured so unsparingly.
Despite his family history, Mr. Brenner avoided focusing on the Holocaust.
Yet doing nothing about it, or avoiding focusing on Russia's responsibility, could well be a re-election campaign liability for both the French and American presidents.
He has avoided focusing on his brother, Antauro Humala, who is in prison for leading a military rebellion in 2005, and his father.
Pitbull avoids focusing on such matters in his music – he claims that his aim is to become successful enough to be able to make a change through other channels, citing the charity work Angelina Jolie has been able to do.
In Van Commenee's own team speech, he avoided focusing on Ennis – the only British athlete with a top-four world ranking going into Berlin – and instead outlined his vision.
