Are You Focused or Sidetracked?
Do you find it hard to stay focused and on track during your day? Do you start a project and then get sidetrack and find yourself doing something that wasn’t even planned. If you work at home, the distractions are everywhere. If you work in an office, the distractions could be the phone, email or your colleagues. Here is an acronym for the word focused.
F. O. C. U. S.
F = follow
O = on
C = course
U = until
S = successful
Follow on Course until successful. Just focus on today and what needs to get done. The big picture may scare you, but the day to day steps are manageable. Fear drives your thoughts and you will easily distract yourself and stop your progress. If you get into fear you are looking into the future, the big picture and you are not present.
Here are 3 questions to help you stay focused on your goal.
- What is one thing that I can do right now to move forward instead of looking at the big picture?
- Break it down into smaller steps. Ask yourself, “What are the steps?”
- What is my objective?
- What is my plan?
- What resources do I have or need?
- What challenges or obstacles might come up?
- Do I need to brainstorm with someone for feedback?
- Am I communicating clearly?
- What is revenue generating?
- Correct and continue.
- Celebrate your successes.
- What is the next step?
- What is my new objective?
- Block out time to create it.
Ask yourself, “What is the 1st thing I need to do next?” Do that until it is done.
While moving forward on your project, just notice if you are on course or not. If not, then ask yourself, “I’m getting distracted. Do I want to be distracted right now?” Just by being aware if you are focused on your project or not will help you stay on track and get the project done.
Just for today practice staying focused for 30 minutes at a time. Set the times and see how much you can get done. Leave me a message and let me know how it goes.