Focus and Concentration

If you constantly get distracted in your goal,  here are tips for you stay focused.

1. Concentrate on 1-3 goals

If you constantly have trouble keeping to your goals, maybe you are spreading yourself too thin. Pick 1-3 goals that are most important to you, and stick to them.  Don't bother yourself with any other goals until goals are achieved ( or unless priorities shift and these goals no longer reflect what you want in life)

For me, my top priority goal is to reach out to more people through my blog, so I ensure all my daily actions ladder up to this one goal. Majority of my time in the week is spent either writing new articles for the blog, maintaining my facebook, LinkedIn and twitter account.  Such a laser focus has allowed me to make much more progress,  compared to when I juggle across 4-5 goals and make a little progress.

2. Create a vision board

A vision board is a collage of pictures and images that represents your goals and dreams. Creating a vision board helps you to Visualize your end goals more clearly, which inevitably inspires you to take consistent action.  Not only that, it also serves to remind you of your goals every day when you see the board.  I have a vision board on my laptop which I open every time.  Every time I see my board, it reinforces my goals to me, and reminds me to take action so as to move forward.

3. Create milestones 

If you just set one huge goal,  it can be discouraging-especially when you don't achieve it after a short while.  When that happens,  some people may procrastinate on the goal altogether- which is quite unfortunate.  If find it's helpful to break a big goal into smaller goals,  after which you concentrate on achieving the smaller goals in the short-run. Just like when I go to long road trip from Johannesburg to Phalaborwa, I set pit-stop to rest throughout the trip.

4. Create a plan

If you have a plan worked out for your goal,  it becomes much easier to stick to it.  All you have to do is to follow the actions you have planned  for the day. The best time to work out your plan is when you set the goal,  because that's when your motivation is the highest. Usually, I create my goal action plans right after I set my goal,  after which I take action immediately- which helps create a positive momentum