Where Is Your Focus

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Do you want more from life? More wealth, more laughter, more travel, more love, and more impact?

Of course, you do.

No matter how great our life currently is, we all want it to be better. And we know to make it better, we need to make some changes.

Doing the same thing today as you did yesterday will only get you the same results you had yesterday.

The question then becomes, how do we make the changes that will unlock our better life? It can be very painful to make the changes necessary to gain traction and improve. I know this firsthand. The good news is that controlling our focus is a simple start to unlocking our better life.

Your life is controlled by what you focus on.

— Tony Robbins

Inputs

In the world today we get bombarded by a mass of inputs that act like noise and constantly interrupt what we want to be doing with what someone else wants us to be doing. In order for us to have a better life, we need to be in charge of our own attention and focus. We need to improve our signal-to-noise ratio. And that can be done by taking control of our inputs so that we have the focus to produce valuable outputs.

Here are just a few examples of inputs that are robbing our focus:

Text messages constantly dinging
Social media likes, and checking for likes every 5 minutes
Smart watch “time to be more active” notifications
Slack messages buzzing all day
Endless emails
Constantly checking for new emails
Phone calls
14 Internet tabs open. All calling for our attention.
Netflix constantly on in the background while we are trying to be present
Watching TV while scrolling on Instagram

Shallow work

With this occurring throughout the day, everyday, we are drained from our ability to focus, and all we have left is the capacity to do shallow work.

Shallow work doesn’t produce value and therefor it will not bring us more wealth, laughter, travel, love and impact. All shallow work brings us is shallow rewards.

If you are wanting to have more in life you need to give and create more. In order to do this you must have the presence and the focus available to produce value.