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How do You Stay Focused When Things Get Tough?

Guest post by: SarahBeth White

Article Overview: There are so many distractions out there that it takes intellectual effort to stay focused. Focus in on goals and rewards not the difficulties. Focus on results and you will succeed. Don't live in the past. Learn from it and let it go. The ability to forget is a talent of greatness. You cannot afford to look behind. Don't let little things bother you. Embrace and accept the fact that focus takes work. Leadership is a precious commodity. 3%'ers make the difference.

How do You Stay Focused When Things Get Tough?

FOCUS is the theme of this article.

Focus on the right things. There are so many distractions it takes intellectual effort to stay focused.

Framework: always look for a better way. What you did before won't get you where you want to be. Find shorter ways to get where you want to go. (Quick and Easy - get in, get it done and move on.) Focused people focus harder than average and longer than average.

Focus: Make commitments not excuses. When you don't know what you're doing, you get frustrated and quit. Don't live in the past. Learn from it and let it go. The ability to forget is a talent of greatness. You cannot afford to look behind. Don't let little things bother you. Think of their source and move on.

Focus in on goals and rewards not the difficulties. Focus on results and you will succeed.

Choose your friends carefully

Five Types of Friends:

1.Refreshers - encouragers

2.Refiners - clarify you

3.Reflectors - mirror your energy; neither improve or discourage

4.Reducers

5.Rejectors - don't understand you

Leadership is a precious commodity. 3%'ers make the difference. These 5 things make the difference in becoming a leader.

The Five Things that 3% Leaders do:

1 Daily visualization of your goals; touch, smell, hear them. What your life looks like when your goals are visualized; it is not just making money.

2 Income producing activities: PLACING ADS daily; handing out DVD's

3 Personal development: Work harder on yourself than you do your living~Jim Rohn Leaders show up.

4 Mastermind with other leaders. Be on calls and be at events. Commit every day to being in that position; choose to be around the leaders.

5 Cultivate the expectation of leadership - positioning proximity. You must first get to the top mentally.

Disciplines: Stretching your character from John C. Maxwell:

The willingness to take greater risks is a major key to achieving success, and you may be surprised that it can solve two very different kinds of problems:

1 The problem of hitting ALL of your goals, and

2 The problem of hitting NO goals because you never make any.

#1 You're not afraid to set goals and commit to a course of action. But the goals you set are not hard to meet. You achieve them with little effort or time invested. But the road to success is uphill. You can't coast and climb at the same time. Take more risks; set more challenging goals. You probably won't achieve all of them. BUT you will have stretched yourself and grown in the process.

#2 You may work hard and keep busy, but your labor lacks direction. Your successes are haphazard and unrepeatable. You're like an archer without a target: sending arrow after arrow off in some general direction. Your avoidance of goals probably means you're afraid to fail: "If I don't set any goals, then I can't fail at meeting them." You are not taking any risks. Your solution: Paint some targets, in a variety of sizes. Give yourself big, medium and small goals, so you can start succeeding and develop momentum.

Think about something you would like to achieve. Make it big enough to scare you a little. Write down a plan for moving toward it. Create mini-goals within the big goal, to set yourself up for continual progress. Include some risks. Find parts of the process where you can push the envelope, take more chances, and increase your opportunity for success.

John C. Maxwell~People do not care how much you know until they know how much you care.

Focus:

Embrace and accept the fact that focus takes work.

Significance of focus: people want to talk about their weaknesses.

A 3%'er focuses in on their strength - nobody is strong all the time. We all have weaknesses. Focus on your strength to make decisions. Forget your circumstances. Accept this and put something into practice today that will move you forward. Focus on your strengths.

Focus on putting first things first; building this business takes money and time and commitment to doing first things first. Focus on future conditions not the past. Visualize your goals: you are already a 3%'er; you commit yourself to become who you are as a 3%'er. Stay focused on your strengths: Focus, Focus, Focus

Leaders get up, dress up and show up. Do not live in the past. Who you are is your focus today.

Focus:

1 Keeps you on target

2 Energizes you; creates more energy

3 Focus lifts you

Choose to have an overcoming spirit. The grindstone can make a diamond shine or reduce a solid rock to dust. Move forward every day.

Achieving goals is the #1 thing we have to do. Refuse to back down or settle for less. Choose to possess an overcoming spirit. Stand firm in knowledge. Basics make the difference: be passionate. Do you have a goal stronger than anything else? Do you have the fire to reach your potential; to reach it more than pleasing those around you?

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