Focus
Being focused is not an easy task in this day and age.
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It’s easy to let your day just pass by without working on any of your goals. Aptly put — “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail” and that is where focus comes in. What if you just replace the word plan with “focus” — which turns into “If you fail to focus, you focus to fail” — you inadvertently focus on the wrong thing?
- Getting up in the morning and scrolling through your messages or YouTube shorts does not meet your goals. Or the same thing at night.
- Addiction to multi-screen or multi-app engagement without limits.
All these lead to distractions that blur your vision or goals and create mental fatigue. I’ve been reading about being “indestructible” recently, and it has helped me track how I spend the most precious commodity —time.
We can reproduce everything else except for “Time” which once spent cannot be earned in any shape or form. That said, how are you spending your time every day? I don’t mean to make you into a workaholic who is “all work and no play”.
If you break your day into time segments, how do you allocate time in each segment of the day to accomplish your goals? We are creatures of habit, and I’ve experienced that if my habits don’t align with my goals, I’m drifting in the wrong direction.
Example: If my goal is to become good at investing — I’d probably need to take a course, read books, or learn from experts online about how to get better.
But if I let this goal rest without any planning, it’s going to catch rust and become a vague desire or wish; instead of a dream - that needs to be fulfilled through actions. Without a disciplined habit in place that supports my goal, I’m probably going to loose time and money so to speak :)
