Many people set goals for themselves but find it hard to achieve anything. Even simple to do lists for the day don’t get ticked off as often as they would like!

It is this lack of focus that is stopping many people from achieving success.

Common problem — people know they should be doing something productive to help themselves but they don’t do it. They get distracted too easily.

So for example, people don’t want to wait and build a business online, they want to succeed within the next 36 hours– in reality this does not happen.

The question is, how can we focus more?

I think you’ve already knew the answer — by setting out specific goals and having a clear vision of the outcome that we want to accomplish, and once we know why we are doing something, we will find it easier to stick to.

For example you want to make $500,000 this year from the internet. Therefore you know that every minute you spend at the computer has to be productive. Why? Because the more productive you are, the closer you will be to getting to you goal of making $500,000 this year.

Obviously, you know what you need to do. If you do get distracted you know you have the choice of continuing with the activity that is distracting you or going back to being productive and working towards your goal.

The trick is, in order to stay focused, you need sheer determination. These two go hand in hand because focus without determination is not going to let you move forward and determination without focus means you don’t have a direction to move towards. Do you see the connection now?

You must be determined to succeed. Many people begin very determined and then start to make excuses. Hey, focus!

Remember success can take time. Overnight success is a… well, a rarity. Research shows that you need to do something for 28 days (or is it 21?) in a row before it becomes a habit. So begin to work at being successful and keep doing it.

Keep the long term goal in mind for everything that you do. It’s very easy to get distracted in the short term but this distraction — watching TV, going for a drink, can have affects that reaches the long term goal.

By focusing on the long term goal, your determination will come in.

Does this mean that you can’t watch TV, go for drinks with friends or do other non-productive things? Of course not.

But there is a time for everything. Be as productive as you can with the time you have in a day but allow yourself the down time as well to enjoy yourself and relax. Get back on the horse after that and achieve the next milestone.

But sometimes, it’s not because lack of determination — it’s limiting beliefs.

Limiting beliefs are beliefs that you can’t do it, you can’t make a change, you will fail, only other people succeed and so on. The fact is, we have so many limiting beliefs and many people have an inner critic that tells them they can’t do things.

So before a person wanted to start, he has already loses his confident.

Here are more examples of what someone might think or say to himself if he wanted to quit his job to start a business:

* I might as well stay in my job, as it’s not so bad
* If my business fails, I will lose everything
* I can’t succeed online — it’s all a scam
* What if I try something and I don’t succeed… people will laugh at me
* I don’t have time to do it

The last excuse is probably the most often use and the most preposterous — however bear in mind that we ALL only have 24 hours in a day. Believe it or not, even the most successful people in the world only have the same amount of time. It’s just how we use those hours that’s important.

So what happens is, you listen to this critic and never take action. Many people feel if they don’t try something then they can’t fail — yup, “weird” logic but people actually think unconsciously like this.

Stop and listen to yourself and see if you can recognize your “inner critic”, hear what it is saying to you. Many of us have one and it can really stop us succeeding! Take a few minutes and complete this simple exercise.

As yourself, “What’s my excuse?”

Write down all the “excuses” you make for not doing something.

Now go back to your list and write out fully why what you wrote above is actually a limiting believe — try to really prove why it is true. Be honest.

When you really examined these thoughts that you had, you will realize that they were excuses you were making.

So the next time you stop yourself from doing something, pause and take the time to examine your thoughts. Is the reality really like that or is it just your inner critic talking?

The secret to stop your inner critic — make yourself bigger than your excuses.

If you like what you’ve read, find some truth to what I’ve shared or just like to say something, please leave your comment — I read every one of it personally.

Your friend,

Patric Chan

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The great Henry Ford said “whether you think you can or think you cannot, you’re right”.

One of the most important things about success is you have to think like a “winner” — you have to believe to succeed. Look, if you don’t believe in yourself who will?

Ford wrote these words many years ago but they are very true even until today. The fact is, what you believe, you “attract” and create. The thoughts you put into your head are very important – if you put negative beliefs into your head, you WILL become negative. Simple as that. If you put skeptical thoughts in your head, no matter how great an opportunity is presented to you, you will still unable to “see” and seize it.

Did you know that we take in so much negative information every single day? Every morning you wake up and turn on the news and guess what… every day the first pieces of information you received were all bad. A war here, a killing here, bad economy, disasters, people full of hate and negative stuff like those. So you’ve only been up 10 minutes but have already been exposed to negativity.

Instead, you should look out for wonderful things, like just noticing a beautiful flower, or listening to the sound of nature in the morning — this will get you into the “right state” for an exciting day.

Another way to stay positive every day is to start your day by focusing on your goals.

A goal will help you to motivate forward – the goal could be aiming to cultivate a habit you wish to acquire, to possess materials like getting a new  car, house, etc, to improve your career, enhance your relationship and so on. You see, when you achieve a goal, it will result in an emotional positive state.

At the same time, it is important to understand that when setting a goal you need to make sure that it is ecological. For example if you set the goal to make $10,000 a month, what are you going to sacrifice doing this? Not seeing your family as often, sleeping less, not eating?

Goals keep us motivated. They give us something to aim for. They also act as feedback as to how near or far away we are from achieving success. Sometimes, people find it too hard to achieve their goals because they have set long-term goals before setting short­ term ones!

So when you set a goal, you want to be SMART — Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely.

An example of being SMART… “I want to lose weight” becomes:

I want to lose 3 pounds, in 2 months’ time and fit into a size 34 waist pair of trousers. I will exercise two evenings a week in the gym from 7 – 9. I can achieve this as I have lost weight in this way before.

This goal is now more realistic, as the person has set out a specific amount of weight to loose, it is measurable and realistic and a time frame has been set.

If you have a goal to think of, I guess you won’t have time to waste with negative matters that are trying to get inside your mind and secondly, each time you achieve a goal, you’ll celebrate to create more positive reinforcement into your life.

However, when setting your goals, they must be completely holistic and balance for your personal life and work.

Last but not least, I couldn’t emphasize this strong enough — whether you’re successful or not, it really depends on your mindset, how you interpret any “event” or the occurrence that is happening this very minute. I mean, you could read this blog post and say how awesome it is or what a waste of time — whatever your interpretation is, it’ll influence what you’ll be doing next. And guess what, that is what’s happening in your life every day, you’re always thinking of what “to do” next.

If you like what you’ve read, find some truth to what I’ve shared or just like to say something, please leave your comment — I read every one of it personally.

Your friend,

Patric Chan

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