You have a goal, and you desperately want to achieve it. But like most people, you find it difficult to keep even your finances in line with your expenses, forget about progressing towards your goal and achieving success. You may find many reasons for this, but one thing you may be missing is the lack of FOCUS.
Isn't it so?
If not, and if you are FOCUSED on what you should be doing, you do not need to read further.
But as you are reading this, you are looking for help in overcoming the lack of FOCUS. So who are the actual enemies of your SUCCESS? The answer is DISTRACTIONS and TIME KILLERS. Stay on to know who they are.
Notifications
Make a list of social media and apps and classify them into USEFUL and USELESS. You will notice that almost 90% of them will be adding no value to your daily work and business.
Marketing emails and newsletters
These are just the stuff you can not actually get benefits from. Newsletters for new articles, videos, or webinars may add but very little value to your overall growth and success.
If you think that emails and mobile notifications are helpful, you may be right. But most of them are time-wasting unless they are related to your business and profession. Not all of them are useful. Ask yourself these questions while looking at a notification or an email.
Is it going to help you save time while doing a task?
Is it going to increase your income?
Is it going to help you achieve your goal faster?
There can be more questions, but these are the questions related to the core things in your life, for example, your career, business, your profession, or job. These things decide your financial as well as personal conditions and success.
Chat apps and games.
If your first action as soon as you get free time is playing a game or chatting with your friends, you may be progressing towards its addiction as time pass. You would not even notice when it will make way into your working hours from free minutes and will start making you forget your daily, crucial tasks.
So what are the best ways to defeat these enemies?
Attack your enemy and its supply before it can make its way into your territory.
1. Remove useless apps and games on your mobile.
I know it is difficult to convince our mind about what is useful and what is not since it chooses the easy and amusing things over difficult but essential ones.
2. Unsubscribe from the newsletters.
You can stay subscribed to those newsletters that actually help you in your efforts in achieving your goal. I.e., if your goal is to become a successful entrepreneur in eCommerce, a newsletter about eCommerce trends and tips will be helpful for you.
3. Stop wasting time chatting with friends.
They are not helping you move towards your goal. It is good to stay connected, but gossip is just a useless thing and does nothing more than killing your time.
By doing this, you will close ways from where they can enter into your routine, preventing them from attacking your efforts towards achieving your goal.
Make your fort stronger and safer
1. Make a schedule
Schedule your tasks of the day, week, and month. And let nothing distract you from doing it on time.
But still, you need to be flexible for change when needed. Sometimes you have to accept an unavoidable task that is not on your list. You may also have to ignore other work for that, but you can allow a little more time for the affected tasks. The best thing is to avoid the distraction as far as possible.
2. Meditate and exercise daily
These activities are crucial to improve your physical and mental health and help you stay focused on your goal and achieve success.
Successful people take mental and physical fitness very seriously since these are the factors that keep you calm and motivated during personal and business challenges.
An unhealthy mind and body can't focus on complex tasks. It will start finding ways to avoid work and looking for comfort and enjoyment. Eventually, chat and games will get their way as an answer to these needs. So stay fit to stay focused.
Creating a schedule and sticking to it will help you keep distractions and time killers away from your routine. On the other hand, being physically and mentally fit will help you stay focused on your goal.
Summary:
Staying focused is the number one requirement to achieve a goal and is a prime concern for most people as they can't stay focused. But it's not impossible if you can remove distractions and time killers from your routine, cultivate a habit of creating and sticking to a schedule and stay mentally and physically healthy.
