May
07
Advice on Remaining Focused
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Someone posted on a forum recently about how to remain focused and not to keep hopping from project to project.
Here’s some advice I gave them:
I’m with you. “It just takes discipline” is easy to write, but not so easy to do if you don’t know how to do it. Remember: there’s no such thing as “discipline”… someone “discipline’s themself”… it’s a verb, an action, a process.
The trick is learning that process.
I’ve recently got tremendously more productive. One reason was to commit myself to doing one project at a time. The other was to keep my daily tasks in front of me (using ) all the time, and keep reminding myself what those tasks are on a regular basis).
I’d suggest you need to find a method to keep yourself on target - something that works for you, specifically - and to do that you need to know what that target is. Make sure you’re current aim is not “to make money”, but to do something specific: “write 10 articles to promote my site”, “release this free report”, or whatever, and then break that aim into smaller steps that you can sit and do in one “session” - however long that is - and then just do one session at a time till you’ve completed each task.
Next: give yourself a break every now and again. Read emails, surf the web etc. When you’re finished. Close your email and browser, and get on with the task at hand.
Finally: if you get ideas or inspiration, write them down, in enough detail that in 10 weeks time you can read your notes and understand exactly what you meant. But don’t start work on them. Let them sit till you’ve finished your current aim.
Hope that helps.
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