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Hi Reader,

You can set brilliant goals.

You can create beautiful monthly plans.

You can even write the perfect daily schedule.

But if you don’t stay focused?

It’s all pointless.

Learning how to stay focused is essential if you want to maximize your productivity and achieve your goals in the shortest amount of time possible.

Why?

Because in our modern world distraction is EVERYWHERE.

Most people spend their entire day in a state of near constant distraction – flitting between tasks, replying to emails, checking social media and jumping to attention at every buzz and ping of their phone.

The result?

​Research shows that the average worker is only productive for two hours and 53 minutes per day.

Worse still, as this extract from the Harvard Business Review so neatly puts it:

“Based on over a half-century of cognitive science and more recent studies on multi-tasking, we know that multi-taskers do less and miss information. It takes time (an average of 15 minutes) to re-orient to a primary task after a distraction such as an email. Efficiency can drop by as much as 40%.”

In other words…

Distraction isn’t harmless:

• It’s costing you time
• It’s costing you momentum
• It’s costing you money

And it’s slowing down your progress towards your goals.

So what is the solution?

The solution is to learn the art of staying focused.

Learn how to stay focused and you will maximize your productivity, get vastly more done each day and reach your goals faster.

What does it mean to stay focused?

To stay focused means to concentrate on one task at a time, giving that task 100% of your attention and – crucially – not allowing yourself to be distracted by anything else.

That means:

• No multi-tasking
• Getting rid of anything that might distract you
• Working on a single task for a set period of time

Simple.

But incredibly powerful.

Why does focusing on one task at a time make such a difference?

There are three main reasons:

1. It reduces switching costs
2. You will do better work because you are able to achieve "flow state"
3. You will spend more of your day on goal-focused tasks

8 tips for staying focused

I hope by now you are thoroughly convinced that learning the art of staying focused is vitally important if you want to boost your productivity and reach your goals in the shortest amount of time possible.

But, of course, staying focused is not easy…

...if it were, everyone would already be doing it!

Fortunately, focus is a skill that can be learned. Better still, the more you practise it, the better you’ll get at it.

If you’d like practical, actionable strategies you can start using straight away, I’ve shared 8 powerful but highly practical tips here: How to stay focused… 8 tips to massively boost your productivity!​

Happy focusing!

Eb 😊
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