Focus to Achieve your Goals

Focus, Focus - On the One Thing

Do you have trouble staying focused on the one thing. ?

There are so many options and ideas floating around and oh so many distractions. It is amazing how much you can achieve in a day or even an hour if you stick to the plan and do one thing at a time.

Scientific studies have proven that multi tasking is not an efficient way to achieve anything. Women tend to claim that their gender have it covered and that they can multi task well. That may be because as Wives and Mothers we have to learn to be available and to do several things at once. This may be the case but is not necessarily the best way to complete things to achieve the best result. How many times have you burnt the dinner because you went off to fold the washing, or just do this.... I know I have.

One thing at a time -

I just spent the day trying to do several things without a plan or a goal as to what I wanted to achieve for the day. This is not an efficient way to do things and I was easily distracted by emails, and Social Media. Most of this was actually work related but ended up being very disjointed so now it is at the end of the day for me and my achievements could have been completed by midday.

The days that I achieve the most are the ones that are planned out with a definite list to follow. I stick to the list and don't start the next thing until I have completed what I set out to do. Sometimes I allow an hour for a task but it may take 2 or three.

How come we are so good at underestimating what we think we can achieve in a certain time frame?

The One Thing - What is it?

I recently finished reading the book, The One Thing, By Gary Keller and Jay Papasan. It was a fairly short read but had some good points in it: I will share some of them with you:

• If you chase two Rabbits - You will not catch either one
• The key is over time. Success is built sequentially. It's one thing at a time.
• Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of the things that matter least
• You must be single-minded. Drive for the one thing on which you have decided
• Success is about doing the right thing, not about doing everything right.
• Decide your habits and your habits decide your future.

There is plenty more good advice in the book but Let's not overdo it at the risk of having too many things on the go at once, which takes me back to my day..... I need to get back to my One Thing for the day and finish it. think that will be to write a blog for my website because "content is king"