How the Heck Do You Focus?

Dammit, I knew I was doing something wrong!

Focus is a skill that can be developed with effort, you just have to keep chipping away at it and rewire the brain

It hasn't (and still isn't always) easy for me to focus, but I have made leaps and bounds compared to when I started IM about 2 and a half years ago. I think that learning to focus on work while in your own home with all the distractions that come with being at home, is something that spills over into everything in your life. I have found this to be the case, your focus increases 'across the board'.

My #1 personal motivation is that I don't like working for other people just to make them more wealthy and I just get a standard wage each month, from which I can barley save a thing. Also, it is very hard for me to do something I don't agree with, and you have to make those compromises when you have a boss. So I just bare those things in mind, and it is good fuel, enough actually that I am making a full time living on line and IM is now my job - and I LOVE IT!

So when I think I can't write one more articles for my websites, or for backlinking, or whatever other tasks come up, I just remind myself of how much worse a JOB is, and that makes me feel a bunch better.

I also keep a rotating pictures for desktop background of things that inspire me and things that I want to buy with the money I make - such as a monolithic dome home and the new Volvo plug-in hybrid that come out next year.

Just think about what is in your life that you don't like, and how making more money online can change that, and use that as your fuel. It gets easier the more you work on it!

Darren

That's a good question. I'd have to say it is closer to the grass being greener.

It's actually a pretty neurotic approach I take.

In a nutshell, it's like...

1. "I can write this article and put it on my site, then build backlinks."

2. "Ah, sweet... three sales in a week."

3. "How much mileage could I get out of this if I were to manually spin this article numerous times at the paragraph, sentence, and phrase/word-levels?"

4. "What if I did that and then only targeted super low-hanging fruit keywords by the hundreds?"

5. "Ooooh, and if that goes as well as I think it might, then I can create an info product about it."

6. "Creating your own products is where the real money is at."

7. "I'll need to make sure I'm building a buyer's list on the backend."

8. "Hey, what was that really cool list-building strategy I learned?"

9. "I need to load up my autoresponder with weekly content first."

10. "To do that, I need some really high quality plr content."

11. "That's what you need to focus on, Lee. Your plr store!"

12. "That's like a hybrid between your own product and a service."

13. "A service? Hmmm... Should I try to drum up ghostwriting clients? That's instant money."

14. "Are there any other services I could offer that wouldn't take up so much time?"

15. "What about all this fiverr arbitrage stuff? Where was that WSO I bought?"

16. "Whoa, look at all these WSO's I haven't actually used!"

17. "Come to think of it, what about ALL those IM courses I invested in?"

18. "Okay, here's one on making 5-figures a month with Amazon. I get consistent commissions from them. Let me ramp this sucker up! Just stay focused!"

19. "Wait, Amazon only pays once a month. I need more frequent payouts."

20. "Market Health products. They pay every two weeks. The earning potential is huge. And there are no serial refunder issues to worry about."

21. "Rrrrr... I feel like I'm scamming people by promoting these products. What if they don't actually work for folks? I don't want to be part of the problem, here."

22. "Let's just kill it with Adsense! Nothing to sell. No skewed marketing angles. Just provide quality information and cash in."

23. "Wait, they only pay once a month, too!"

... and there's about 419 more! They just seem to keep on going.

Anyone else ever have this type of thing happen in their brains...

or do I need meds? (no Market Health affiliate links, please! )

Rod,

Thank you for your great response. I just visited the link and found it immensely helpful. I liked #7 a lot, especially the quote at the end. "Take care of your customers and your competition will take care of themselves."

I really appreciate the help.

I'm considerably more centered now. I know what I need to do.

Haha maybe she can work herself rich.

I keep a journal and books, magazines about the niche around my table. And I keep an eye on the competitors on net... Enough for me...

Thanks again, friends.

Highly valuable tips you've shared. It seems to me that the common theme here is that "money isn't enough."

In a PowerTalk installment where Tony Robbins interviewed Wayne Dyer, I remember them saying something about "staying on purpose," or something to that effect.

Essentially, it means to focus on the greater good of your actions rather than your own personal gain. In other words, "how can I sincerely help people?" Perhaps that's where I've been lacking focus.

To completely level with you guys, I've been in desperation mode throughout literally the entirety of my IM career. The mediocre results I've gotten have been just enough to "keep my head in the game," but not enough to curb my extreme daily anxiety... at all.

Desperation mode has not served me well. Perhaps I need to focus on what kind of results I want to PROVIDE... rather than RECEIVE.

Wow, that was ONE AMAZING series of suggestions!

To be focussed is not difficult when you need something desperately. Set higher targets with some materialistic goal..you need to be greedy in order to be hardworking or take work as your passion with a little bit of organization.