Staying Focused is Not Always Easy, But What Does Being Focused Look Like? Don’t Miss Out This Post....

I would like to reiterate that everything I share on here are personal experiences and not just opinions, I am fully aware there are many ways to achieve goals, different routes, in other words, I’m not the owner of absolute truth, but I’m sharing my own truths and to some these experiences might serve as a north star, to you or maybe to someone you know personally.

To share these ideas is to spread good will, and if someone reads these posts and criticises them, it's probably because they know a lot about the subject and I can respect that, but sometimes the comments are not constructive, but the opposite. I would say to these people that it’s fine, they should take care of their blogs and realize that I’m simply doing my best here. I also don’t understand what is the goal they may have.

And as I’m writing about them, I’m thinking that they are a good example of people who are losing their focus.

Being focused goes hand to hand with the idea of self help. Many books are written about this, but there is a big difference between reading about a subject and implementing what you have learned.

I can tell you that it took me more than ten years to begin to understand for a fact what it meant to be focused, and I thought I was, but the truth is I wasn’t.

To remain focused is not simple, but I will try to sum it up in the best way that I can.

These days I work 16 to 17 hours per day to all the projects I’m dedicated to. My companies, my artistic career, and my investments, and think about the fact that I still set time aside to write on this blog.

But then, how do you self assess if you are really focused?

1 - You have to have a plan with fixed dates in your mind you must hit. Only then you will begin to see if you are using your time wisely.

2 - Pay attention to your daily activities and you will discover you lose a lot of time with distractions that push you away from your goal.

3 - Reaming focus requires sacrifices, you have to stop watching the TV shows you like for example. Can you prioritize fun over building a future? The answer is no.

To expand on this, I’ve trained thousands of adults over the years and I quickly discovered many of them can act like children. They want to eat cake before having the real meal, and I always found this really funny. We have to ask ourselves, do we have authority over ourselves? Do we have power of will?

4 - Plan ways to break the bad habits

Once you start to set target dates, you have to set yourself up to reprogram the mind too. It’s like setting up a countdown to a better you and you don’t count along you will get distracted right away.

5 - Once you are focused, be ready to put in a lot of work, a lot of hours to achieve those goals.

I asked plenty of people on this blog how many hours they work and I was stunned to see the responses. On average eight hours per day. Eight hours per day is very little and please don’t misunderstand me, I’m not saying people should work seventeen like I do, but I think twelve is a reasonable number, if you don’t work hard you are just kidding yourself really.

On top of that I’m talking twelve hours of complete focus. Not watching TV too, but actually working on something with intent. This of course may not apply to being an employee, since jobs don’t usually require a lot of focus, but that’s not what I’m talking about of course.

Now let's suppose that you have a job that takes 6 hours a day from you, and you get 4-5 hours to dedicate to a project to edifice yourself. In that case, the 4-5 hours should be done with complete focus.

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