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Why Your Lack Of Focus Is Holding You Back

By on February 16, 2018

What’s stopping you from becoming successful? You could probably say a lack of money, resources, or you don’t know where to begin. The only thing holding you back from starting a business or becoming a best-selling author is your lack of focus.

When you lack focus, you can’t get anything done. You’re sleeping in or playing on your phone. When you don’t focus on the task at hand, you will be unproductive and when you’re unproductive, you will fall into a life of mediocrity and I don’t think that’s what you want.

People spend countless hours each day surfing their phone or watching Netflix and can’t understand why they’re not successful. It’s simple, if you wish to become successful you need to become focused.

Focus, like anything else, is a habit. A habit is getting up and checking your phone right away or meditating as soon as you wake up. Which one do you think will allow you to become more focused?

By now you know you need to become more successful if you wish to become successful. But how exactly do you become more focused?

The number one step to becoming more focused is through eliminating distractions. This means when you work on a single task, you work on that task only. You don’t pick up your phone or browse the internet.

When you’re done with one task, you move onto another task. Your goal should be to complete five tasks each day. These are the five tasks that will push you forward to your desired success.

Once you complete your five tasks for the day. Then you’re done. You can have as much lack of focus you want. The key is this only happens once you finish your five tasks for the day.

When you get control of your focus, you can become successful.

 Trevor Oldham

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