Your
dreams and audacious goals should be written where you can consistently see
them. On what is written down are my big goals, my weekly goals, and
motivational quotes. This helps me keep the eye on the prize, maintain
focus, and ward of other distractions.
Focus only on TODAY:
We can get lost in thinking about the future
or regretting the past. What’s terrible about this is that while you’re
worrying and wishing you were in a different position in life, someone else is
working.
Worry does you no good. If you truly
want to succeed you need to learn how to focus your mind only on the present.
Do what you can do in the moment, work on the project at hand, accomplish your daily
goals and tasks, and you’ll do the same with your bigger, lifelong goals and
dreams.
Don’t Pack Your TO-DO List:
Don’t
try and fill your day with too much. Sure, you’d like to get a lot accomplished,
but there should only be 3 important tasks that NEED to be accomplished. Focus
on these first. When they’re completed, and only when they’re completed, are
you allowed to move on to other things.
Too
many people spread themselves thin. What ends up happening is they get
overwhelmed, which crushes their motivation, and nothing gets done. If you’re
focused, you’ll stay motivated, you’ll get more done, and you’ll be where you
want to be a lot faster.
Practice Discipline:
Discipline
is necessary. It’s in discipline that we gain freedom. We gain freedom to get
more done, to improve, and to remove regret from our lives. When you’re focused
only on today, doing only what needs to be done in the now, nothing else matters.
But discipline needs to be practiced everyday.
If you
practice laziness and distraction, that is what you’ll be, and you’ll be left
with nothing but regret and failure. Practice being successful by doing what successful people do everyday:
they remain disciplined. Remember, take it one day at a time. Don’t get
overwhelmed with eternity when the present should be your only concern.
Motivation and excitement about your vision, your ambition, your goal, give you
energy and an ability to do what others can,
but won’t do. If you’re
motivated, you work longer hours, but are also more productive and focused in
those hours you work.
