Tag: focus
15 Tips To Do More Focused Work (Even When You’re On The Go)
QUESTION: HOW DO YOU STAY FOCUSED WHEN WORKING ON THE GO — IN AIRPORTS, CO-WORKING SPACES, STARBUCKS? TIME YOUR WORK SESSIONS “Set a timer for thirty minutes and commit to not doing anything else during that time. No phone, no email, no Facebook. Setting a timer frees your mind to focus on the single task at [...]
13 Ways to Manage Your (Hectic) Schedule And Stay On Task
Question: How do you keep yourself on task/maintain productivity with a hectic work schedule? TURN OFF THE DOPAMINE DRIP “Let’s face it — we’re all addicted to email. If you want to get stuff done, turn off your email. Close your social media feeds and web browser too. You’ll be amazed at what you get [...]
The Art of Adherence
In business and in life, the game is usually won by those who can consistently execute a well-thought-out strategy. In other words, winners stick with it—they practice adherence. Adherence is the ability to consistently execute. Not coincidentally, the word “adherence” appears to have originated in the 1500s from the French word “adherer,” which means “to stick [...]
Focus Can Change the World
We all like control. We like to control the TV remote, our finances, and our businesses. I would like to control the outcome of football games. What’s nice is that we get to control what we pay attention to, where we put our focus. We forget sometimes with all the information available to us through [...]
The Sh*t You Keep Doing That Doesn’t Matter
I always feel busy. When I’m not even that busy getting anything “done”, I still feel busy. When someone asks me, “How does your week look?” it would be a personal affront to my career and my image to say, “I don’t really have much at all to do.” However, when I really look at each and [...]
Focus Can Change the World
We all like control. We get to control what we pay attention to, where we put our focus. We forget sometimes with all the information available to us through media that we do not have to listen to and read everything that crosses our screens. The same goes for the rest of our lives – [...]
How to Redsicover the Lost Art of Focus
It’s so easy to go after everything (or everyone) at once, wear ourselves out, and say we’re giving our best. But there are two things life (and failure) has taught me: Activity doesn’t always equate to productivity–1000 sales calls means nothing without sales Not everyone likes me The first is pretty self explanatory, but what [...]
Why Laser Focus Leads to Success
In 2010, Google’s Eric Schmidt said that we are creating as much information now in two days now as we did from the dawn of man through 2003. Let’s also consider the fact that man has been around for about 200,000 years. This means that every two days, we produce over 200,000 years of data. [...]
Why You Should Treat Your Business Like Your Boring 9-5: Put in as Little As Possible
Yup, I said it. Who remembers their boring 9-5 job, where you slacked off and did as little as possible to get by? 2 hour lunches, coffee breaks that turned into 2 hour lunches, mornings on ESPN and Perez Hilton, shopping trips disguised as doctors appointments. I even have a friend who goes and sees [...]
