The Ultimate Focus Strategy: How to Set the Right Goals, Develop Powerful Focus, Stick to the Process, and Achieve Success by Meadows Martin

Author:Meadows, Martin [Meadows, Martin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, azw3
Publisher: Meadows Publishing
Published: 2017-03-27T04:00:00+00:00

STEP 2 — FOCUS: QUICK RECAP

1. The second step comes down to choosing one path and staying on it until you reach your destination. Resisting the temptation to chase after shiny distractions is paramount to success with the strategy.

2. There are four steps to find the right path to follow. Start by researching the tried and true strategies, instead of looking for a magic pill. When choosing the strategies to test, eliminate any approach that you can’t imagine following over the long term. For example, if you absolutely hate running, don’t start a workout plan that forces you to run every day. You can only go so far with sheer persistence. Next, research the remaining strategies more thoroughly, asking yourself if you can follow them for months or years. Lastly, pick one strategy and stick to it for at least a few weeks or months.

3. You should stick to your strategy if it’s scalable, doesn’t come with too many drawbacks, and can easily become a part of your everyday routine. You should consider changing the strategy if it doesn’t bring the expected results, you abhor following it, or there are unexpected inconveniences that are part of the strategy and make it challenging to stick to it.

4. Whenever you feel the temptation to deviate from your path, remind yourself that success requires following a system. It might be boring or repetitive at times, but it’s necessary for accomplishment.

5. To overcome everyday distractions, practice mindfulness, take up a high-focus sport, read and write, try to engage with your entire self in whatever you’re doing, surround yourself with beauty, travel, and be careful of laziness triggers (activities that throw you out of your “work” mode and make it difficult or impossible to return back to work).

6. If you’re dealing with too many personal challenges at once and they’re so severe you can’t maintain focus on your most important goal, apply the Ultimate Focus Strategy to your problems instead of focusing on your main objective. Resume working on your dreams when you’re done putting out fires.

If the problems aren’t so paralyzing and you can continue on toward your main goal, rate them from 1 to 10 (with 10 being the most worrying problem) and deal with these challenges one by one, starting with the most difficult — but only after performing your key action for the day that will get you closer to your primary objective.

7. You can lack motivation permanently or suffer from a bout of discouragement. If you were motivated enough to work on your goal in the beginning, but now you can’t force yourself to keep going, ask yourself if you can imagine your life without accomplishing it.

If you can, it’s probable your goal is no longer the right goal for you (or perhaps it never was). Reconsider it. If you can’t imagine your life without reaching a specific goal, this means that the goal is right, but your attitude about the process to reach it is not. It’s time to embrace boredom.

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