Focus Brings Long Term Results

tyroneshum · 04-10-2009, 08:51 PM

Over the past 2 years of venturing out and running my own business and not working full-time in a job I have tried numerous business opportunities. I have tried businesses in providing student accommodation, share trading and options, renting and selling paddles to dragon boat clubs and selling toilet odour eliminator products online. This was opportunistic thinking and diminished my efforts as I got started by adding more work rather than focusing on one business. It was all very tempting to try and run them at the same time to see which one would take off. Unfortunately there was no focus and when times got tough I jumped across to work on the business that interested me more.

Opportunistic Thinking Is Bad

If you are like me and see that everything is possible and always keeping an open mind about business ideas, then you will find it irresistible to try new ideas. Trust me I’ve learnt the hard way. So how have I changed this? I’m a huge fan of Yaro Starak’s blog - entrepreneurs-journey.com and one day he wrote a post about his coach Rich Schefren who was launching a new coaching program. As usual most internet marketers have a system to launch their new products and give away a lot of free quality information that can be applied straight away. They do this so they can build rapport with you and show that their information is useful before they start their sales pitch on you. As I knew the information was free and they just wanted my email address, I downloaded Rich’s eBook, the “Internet Manifesto“. If you haven’t read it, I would recommend you get a copy of it immediately.

The Change in Mindset
After reading the “Internet Manifesto”, I had a profound moment that I would change the way I operate my business. My mindset went from “thinking opportunistic” to “thinking strategically” meaning if I wanted to build a long term business I would have to set up the right systems and hire staff to leverage my time. I realised that I couldn’t do everything myself. Rich’s famous flowchart accurately shows how most Solo Enterpreneurs run their Internet Businesseses today. (I’m one of them and have taken action to outsource a lot of my work since then)

Since then I have taken action to sell my businesses that are not part of my goals and made a mental decision to not start new business opportunities.

Focus Is Key
Since I was compelled to find out more, I downloaded the rest of Rich’s series of books which are listed below:

Internet Manifesto
The Missing Chapter
The Final Chapter
Attention Age Doctrine Part 2
Maven Matrix Manifesto
The Entrepreneurial Emergency

Through this series I learned that I needed to focus on one task at a time, not five at a time (today’s generation calls it multi-tasking). Making that shift helped me improve time efficiency and also get tasks completed that generated more money. Additionally, you need to use your strengths to focus on a task and learn to outsource the rest that you are not good at. This is the key to long-term success in any business.

Tyrone Shum
Focus Strategist

Kim Thomas · 04-11-2009, 11:36 PM

focus is a key to long term success though it is extremly hard to get focused and stay focused it is imparitive to long term results, if you look into the life of a person whos achieve long term succsess you will almost always see that they never lost there focus of what was truly important

FrontLineMentor · 04-12-2009, 03:05 AM

Focus actually brings
both short and long term results

Multi-tasking are highly not
advisabe

Successfacilitator · 08-07-2009, 11:04 PM

Focus on the right line of action and anticipated outcome is key to extraordinary success in ay sphere of life.

adgreenph · 08-10-2009, 03:25 AM

Focus is really important and that what keep as going, so to reach somewhere we need to focus our effort to arrived at something.

acedalright · 08-10-2009, 06:13 AM

Focus is incredibly important to long term success, as it is the long term motivational vehicle.

A catalyst is great, for immediate motivation, but great focus is far more priceless

04-10-2009, 08:51 PM	#1
tyroneshum Australian Entrepreneur Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 624 Blog Entries: 7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 79 Times in 68 Posts Social Networking Contact Info	Focus Brings Long Term Results Over the past 2 years of venturing out and running my own business and not working full-time in a job I have tried numerous business opportunities. I have tried businesses in providing student accommodation, share trading and options, renting and selling paddles to dragon boat clubs and selling toilet odour eliminator products online. This was opportunistic thinking and diminished my efforts as I got started by adding more work rather than focusing on one business. It was all very tempting to try and run them at the same time to see which one would take off. Unfortunately there was no focus and when times got tough I jumped across to work on the business that interested me more. Opportunistic Thinking Is Bad If you are like me and see that everything is possible and always keeping an open mind about business ideas, then you will find it irresistible to try new ideas. Trust me I’ve learnt the hard way. So how have I changed this? I’m a huge fan of Yaro Starak’s blog - entrepreneurs-journey.com and one day he wrote a post about his coach Rich Schefren who was launching a new coaching program. As usual most internet marketers have a system to launch their new products and give away a lot of free quality information that can be applied straight away. They do this so they can build rapport with you and show that their information is useful before they start their sales pitch on you. As I knew the information was free and they just wanted my email address, I downloaded Rich’s eBook, the “Internet Manifesto“. If you haven’t read it, I would recommend you get a copy of it immediately. The Change in Mindset After reading the “Internet Manifesto”, I had a profound moment that I would change the way I operate my business. My mindset went from “thinking opportunistic” to “thinking strategically” meaning if I wanted to build a long term business I would have to set up the right systems and hire staff to leverage my time. I realised that I couldn’t do everything myself. Rich’s famous flowchart accurately shows how most Solo Enterpreneurs run their Internet Businesseses today. (I’m one of them and have taken action to outsource a lot of my work since then) Since then I have taken action to sell my businesses that are not part of my goals and made a mental decision to not start new business opportunities. Focus Is Key Since I was compelled to find out more, I downloaded the rest of Rich’s series of books which are listed below: Internet Manifesto The Missing Chapter The Final Chapter Attention Age Doctrine Part 2 Maven Matrix Manifesto The Entrepreneurial Emergency Through this series I learned that I needed to focus on one task at a time, not five at a time (today’s generation calls it multi-tasking). Making that shift helped me improve time efficiency and also get tasks completed that generated more money. Additionally, you need to use your strengths to focus on a task and learn to outsource the rest that you are not good at. This is the key to long-term success in any business. Tyrone Shum Focus Strategist
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04-11-2009, 11:36 PM	#2
Kim Thomas Active Warrior Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 30 Thanks: 1 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Re: Focus Brings Long Term Results focus is a key to long term success though it is extremly hard to get focused and stay focused it is imparitive to long term results, if you look into the life of a person whos achieve long term succsess you will almost always see that they never lost there focus of what was truly important

04-12-2009, 03:05 AM	#3
FrontLineMentor HyperActive Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Feb 2009 Posts: 366 Thanks: 21 Thanked 31 Times in 25 Posts Social Networking	Re: Focus Brings Long Term Results Focus actually brings both short and long term results Multi-tasking are highly not advisabe

08-07-2009, 11:04 PM	#4
Successfacilitator Active Warrior War Room Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Brussels Posts: 82 Thanks: 27 Thanked 10 Times in 8 Posts Social Networking	Re: Focus Brings Long Term Results Focus on the right line of action and anticipated outcome is key to extraordinary success in ay sphere of life.
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adgreenph Warrior Member Join Date: Aug 2009 Posts: 16 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Re: Focus Brings Long Term Results Focus is really important and that what keep as going, so to reach somewhere we need to focus our effort to arrived at something.

08-10-2009, 06:13 AM	#6
acedalright The Electric Eccentric Join Date: May 2009 Location: On Top Of Spaghetti All Covered In Cheese Posts: 344 Thanks: 10 Thanked 25 Times in 24 Posts Social Networking	Re: Focus Brings Long Term Results Focus is incredibly important to long term success, as it is the long term motivational vehicle. A catalyst is great, for immediate motivation, but great focus is far more priceless
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