How to Be Successful In Business and Life - The Power of Intense Focus

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How to Be Successful In Business and Life - The Power of Intense Focus
If you're looking for how to be successful, in business and in life, you can have all the answers, but without this one thing, you will fail in everything worth winning at.

"People think focus means saying "yes" to the thing you gotta focus on. That's not what it means at all. It means saying "no" to the other hundred good ideas that there are.".
-Steve Jobs.

A long time ago, in a mystical place called Cupertino, California, Steve Jobs created Apple, but was eventually fired from his own company, and was gone for about 10 years.

During his unwanted sabbatical, Apple was hemorrhaging money. In one year they lost $1 Billion (yes, with a B). When Apple was failing they were selling insane amounts of products. They had veered from the foundations that made Apple great with Jobs at the helm.

Eventually Steve Jobs regained his place as the CEO of Apple, and immediately made some serious changes to restore Apple to its former glory.

What Jobs decided to do was scrap 70 % of the sales catalog and turn the focus of the company to selling only 4 products: 2 desktop computers, and 2 laptop computers.

When this was done , he got some major criticisms for it, but the first year he was back he made the company $300 million in profit.

Criticism tends to go away after that kind of turnaround.

The moral of the story (and how to be successful in general):.

Pick one thing, focus as if your life depends on it, shun all distractions, and do the work that needs to be done to get the outcome that you desire. Nothing else matters.

In business, especially those of us just starting out who need cash right now, we tend to get hooked on looking for "the secret", the magic ingredient that will show us how to be successful in our business in 2.35 seconds or less, and solve all of our problems in one fell stroke.

I'm telling you right now, stop looking for this mystical, magical secret. It doesn't exist. If you really want to know how to be successful with your business follow this one tip: Look for, and DO, what gets results, even if it looks like real, actual work.

The only real path for how to be successful is to do only the activities that will get you what you want. Here's how to figure out what you're doing will get you to where you want to go.

Focused Action Exercise.

For this example our desired outcome is to make $15,000 a month in our business, so we can enjoy some awesome trips around the world, take care of our loved ones, or whatever it is that you want to have that money for right now.

1. Grab a piece of paper.

2. Draw a line right down the middle. At the top headers write "income-producing activities" (like putting out ads, sharing a presentation with people, etc. and "non-income producing activities" such as blogging and personal development (stuff that doesn't make money in and of itself, but is still important to what you need to get accomplished.).

3. Write down all of the actions that you took to achieve your desired outcome. Put each action in the right section.

4. Take a look at your list. You may realize that you may be "working" but not really doing the actions necessary to get the results we want.

5. Get truthful with yourself, find the real work that needs to happen, no matter how far out of your comfort zone it initially takes you, and get to work. Prioritize by getting the most results-producing (and usually most uncomfortable) activities done first before anything non-income producing.

Doing this consistently isn't sexy at first glance, but if you do this every day until you get what you want, it will produce sexy results in your business and your life.

Again, those who know how to be successful know how to stay focused.

Make Today an Epic Adventure!

Roy Dunne.

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