C’mon, you know focus IS non-negotiable when you want to produce really BIG results! Fortunately for me, my life taught me early on that I HAD to develop laser-focus IF I wanted to achieve anything of merit in my life.
Holding laser-focus is another matter for many of us, with all of the distractions that exist in our work spaces. For me, because my business is online, the very nature of my work requires that I frequently engage social media and the online-programs I offer. So, in a sense, distraction is built into my work. But I know you experience distractions in your work and life too, so we still share in common the challenges of creating focus to produce results.
If we don’t ratchet up our focus-game, we won’t accomplish nearly all that is possible. This I know for sure. Since implementing these 5 new things into my success-strategy-game, I’ve made HUGE differences in my performance and productivity.
MY 5 Tips to Create Laser-Focus:
- I root down into my WHY-Power, my purpose, and what I know I most want to achieve in my life, my vision, with meditation and prayer time every morning, before I do anything else. These practices are flat-out non-negotiable. These few morning practices may seem unrelated to focus for you, but when I root down into why I do what I do, it’s like a magnet pulls me right into my soul. By zeroing in to my purpose and my vision consistently everyday, without fail (yes, I even have these recorded to listen to on my phone), I OWN my self in ways that peripheral and worldly distractions can’t touch me any longer, even when they try.
- But I have put structures in place that support fewer distractions.
- From 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, I block email notifications AND social media notifications from popping up on my computer screen. Those pop-ups are such a distraction and time waster. But I do schedule email-check times, and social-media engagement times at set intervals. I have to if I want to be productive, so I respond to calls and emails when it works for my schedule. Just because I don’t check in to an office any longer, and you may not either, doesn’t mean our time and our objectives are less time-senstive.
- I also shut the ringer on my phone off from 9:00-5:00 on “desk” days, unless I am expecting a call, which was once something I would never have considered. Ha! This one strategy alone has made a HUGE difference in my productivity!
- I excel exponentially when I create completely undisturbed windows of time. Because I know this about me, I’ve structured into my work days 2 undisturbed “work cave” intervals, with each at the minimum 2 hours long. When I go into my work cave, it is literally like I am not on this planet any longer. You can not reach me. Everything is in shut down mode, to safe-guard my productivity, as well as my creativity. I’m sure you’ve had the experience too, when you are in high-yield or deep-creative mode, and the phone rings, or your email or text dings! I’ve completely lost my creative flow at times like that, and that is like losing connection with the “ether-world!” NO go!! That does not work! When I created this structure, it made a literal night and day difference in my productivity and performance.
- I’ve also scheduled windows of time for social media engagement. This alone positively impacts my performance 100%, because my focus is no longer preoccupied or diminished by the obsessive attention social media triggers. Ummm, I HIGHLY recommend this tip!
- I created for me what I call an empowering spin on the distracting email pop-up. In my calendar, I scheduled 3-timed pop-ups that remind me to “focus,” and “stay focused” throughout my day. The coolest thing about these reminders is I literally get an adrenaline rush to really zero in on my work!
I could NEVER have created what I have in my life thus far, without laser, single-pointed focus. I hope what I offer here helps you also rid avoidable distractions, to tighten up your focus, to produce all the results that you’ve been wanting!
Can’t expect to win, if we don’t play to win!
