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Here Are My Essential Tips For Staying Focused On Your Goals

If you are in business for yourself, you will encounter all kinds of roadblocks that test your dedication to achieve your goals. Here are my essential tips to help you maneuver around barriers looking to take your attention away from reaching your goals. Please note that these tips go beyond business owners and can be applied to basically any goal that you have. Be it weight loss, getting better grades in school, or any other achievement you are striving for, these tips will help you!

Know YOUR priorities.

You have priorities. You may have even written them down or added them to your daily to do list on your iPhone but will they get completed? In all seriousness, you should not have to write them down. You should know your daily priorities. They are the beacons of light that guide your ultimate success. Your top business priorities are those things that will have the biggest positive impact on your business. You need both business and personal priorities to do your best work and live your best life - think family, health and religion. Here is a great article priorities by LifeHacker.Com to help guide you if you are struggling with priorities in all areas of your life.

Share your priorities with those that can help you stay focused.

Those who love you should want to support you in reaching your goals. However, they will not know how to do that until you have explained your priorities with them. Telling people what what your goals (and priorities) will make it easier to set boundaries around your time. When you say, "I'm sorry. I can not have lunch today because I have an outbound shipment ready to be processed and shipped to Amazon." they should better understand why.

Let it go.

We all need to take a tip from Elsa here.

By saying "Yes" to your big goals, it means that you must say "No" to other obligations that take up your time. Decide what should be eliminated from your schedule. This might be spending time on social media (my personal time drain), getting caught up on current events or watching a favorite television show. This might also mean that you need to pull back from tasks that aren't serving you. For example, I no longer attend my local Chamber of Commerce meetings for small business owners.

Practice a good 'Rejection Line.'

A 'Rejection Line' is what you use to say "No, thank you" to requests for your time and / or energy. Personally, I favor the one I picked up in my years in Business-To-Business sales. It is, "I'm sorry I can't do that with/for you. I have another obligation at that time. " Another great line is "Let me think about it and get back to you." This is more about postponing a response rather than delivering an outright rejection. It is perfect to use when you are tempted and may seriously want to reconsider the offer or invite.

Believe in yourself.

Trust that you can accomplish your goals - even those big ones that seem to be out of reach. They wouldn't have occurred to you if the Universe was not ready to deliver the to your doorstep. There will be people and circumstances that try to separate you from your goals and dreams. The more you have faith in your purpose or life's direction, the more likely you will be to stand up for what is important to YOU.

Schedule time and let others know.

If you have a lofty goal, you have to plan to work towards it. This sounds easy but it is often near impossible to fit in daily. Thus, you need to schedule time for your tasks. You may even need to hang a sign on your work-space door telling others that you are not available. A sign reminds you and (intentional and unintentional) interrupters that you are working. If you are a laptop entrepreneur like myself, LOG OUT OF SOCIAL MEDIA. Doing this will greatly reduce any temptations.

Ask yourself "What If . . . ?"

When I was working on my Amazon Selling course, one of my mentors asked me, "What if you keep placing this on hold and someone else makes an inferior product and takes your potential buyers?" The thought that someone else may beat me to the punch me helped me stay on task. Ask yourself, what is your "What If" question that will help you stay focused on your priorities?

I hope this helps you find, set and keep your priorities. If you found any value in this post, please subscribe to my blog.

Have fun chasing your dreams!
Chris

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We can tell you all we want about developing a content strategy for your business that is accurate, focused, and disciplined, but what do you earn if you follow our advice?

Here are just a few of the benefits.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO): We continually hammer the concept that Google will reward you for having the genuine interest of your readers in mind. And what better way to do so, than to focus the content of your website? Use your focus to frame topics you blog about, use it to refine the content on your pages, and Google will very likely reward you for it.

Quality traffic to your website: Not only will you gain more traffic to your site, but the people coming to your site will be better qualified because they are specifically interested in your focus.

Narrows down your potential customer: Finding your focus also helps you find your focus audience and potential customers, and how to best target them. It results in a smaller target audience, but a more interested audience.

Reduces your competition: We've said it before and we'll say it again: it's better to be a specialist than a generalist, and there are far fewer specialists than there are generalists. Therefore, you narrow your competition by focusing on what you do best. Especially when potential customers are going to be searching for specific services, they are more likely to find you and your specialty.

Decrease spending on marketing efforts: Marketing can be a trial and error concept. You can spend thousands of dollars trying to figure out what marketing efforts are working, information about your audience, what content works best, what are the best keywords, etc. When you find your focus, you narrow down your marketing strategy, and ultimately cut costs.

Higher Quality Blog Content: Your blog could flourish when you focus your strategy. Here's an example. If you are a real estate agent and you want to focus on your specialty as a fix and flip realtor, you could blog about replacing floors, ceilings, cabinets, the benefits of new windows, appliances, and more. The possibilities are endless! You can blog about topics that you would have never thought of, or that are outside of your typical industry.

The benefits of finding your focus are endless, and will truly make your business successful. We will continue this series on finding your focus next week, where we will discuss why less is more, and why finding your focus could save your business.

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I experience doubt every day. Nagging questions. Am I good enough? Am I doing enough? My noisy neighbour, the one living in my head wakes early. So I get busy proving him wrong, again.Where does that doubt come from? Maybe it served fitting in and meant survival.

Studies of the performance gap between men and women in spatial skills found confidence plays a huge role. Women asked their gender before taking a spatial skills test performed worse than those who weren't asked. Both genders performed better when they were told that their gender is better at the task. The gender gap almost disappeared when participants were required to answer every question. Apparently, when allowed to skip questions, women did so not due to lack of knowledge, but lack of confidence.

So what is confidence and how does it contribute to a sense of calm? Confidence is comfort in your own skin that allows you to deal with discomfort from others. True confidence is not cockiness. Bravado belies a lack of self-belief.

How do you build confidence? Think of truly confident people you know - those who believe in themselves. What do they do? How do they behave?

Confident people are true to themselves. This needs clarity, knowing who you are. They become comfortable in their skin because they practise. This involves being vulnerable but long-term it's less stressful than pretending. Others admire this authenticity, even if it doesn't get as many likes.

Before I run a workshop, I experience doubt. I remind myself I'm just there to help. While no expert, I have something to add. I'm prepared and will do my best. That's all that matters. For me, happiness is liking what I do, how I do it, having fun and making a difference.

Nobody is perfect, but I believe most people are doing their best with what they have got. Give yourself credit. You are enough. Worth comes from inside, how you behave, not how others perceive it. Confidence dependent on praise is narcissism. Don't seek attention. If it comes, accept it gracefully.

And be yourself. That all being said, make sure that self dresses, speaks, moves and behaves how you want to be.

Confident people believe in their own ability to change something

They are realistic. They identify what they can control. As they work within that circle of influence, it expands.

We all say "I should do this" or "they should do that". People with confidence don't wait for permission. If they think something should be done, they do it. They focus on what they can do. They don't make excuses.

If you feel helpless, do one small thing. Make one small promise to yourself and keep it. It might be just asking for help. That's a promise kept.

This year I chose the word "Grie" to help me remember Gratitude, Relentlessness, Intention and Trust. Trust is the belief that good things will happen if I practise the other three.

As Vincent Van Gogh said: "If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint', then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

Confident people take chances

My boss once advised me to stop seeking permission, that the work I did was high quality and that it would be more effective to back myself and ask for forgiveness on the rare occasion things went wrong. He created an environment in which I could fail. I don't use the term fail here because failure is stopping. It may be the biggest confidence booster I ever got. I've been taking risks ever since. Nothing crazy, just small bets.

Most weeks, I think about a free bet. A chance I should take, someone to help, someone to ask for help. One week, I asked The Irish Times could I write about my experience of coming back to Ireland after 16 years. Twelve articles later and I'm still writing. One week I helped run a workshop for ex-colleagues because I thought I had something to offer their wellbeing and productivity. Eighteen months later and it's a new business.

So don't get too comfortable. It leads to complacency and onto stagnation. When you feel comfortable, use it as a trigger to push again and expand that circle. Discomfort is good.

Comfort is the enemy of progress

Confident people embrace struggle. Most of us don't like setbacks. But we must accept that they are the inevitable consequence of real improvement. When they arise from endeavour, we should view them as proof that we are making progress. We can then learn and improve - and keep going. Why complain about the only thing that is a natural part of real progress?

In business, I ask customers for feedback. It's sometimes hard to hear but also inevitable. It doesn't change my worth and it's my opportunity to learn. But it's still hard. Embrace the very process, struggle, that leads to happiness or success.

Confident people are positive and grateful. They ask 'Why not?' rather than 'Can I?' Every day is a blank canvas for you to paint. You can find 10 reasons you will fail or 10 reasons you will succeed that day. Choose the latter. I have a red notebook at my bedside. Each night I write three things I'm grateful for. They are mostly simple things but the important ones - family dinner, someone helped, a coffee alone. I want to be grateful so I practise. I'm rewiring my brain.

Each evening, write down what you enjoyed. Each morning, jot down one thing that will make the day great.

"Stop listening to yourself and start talking to yourself," says Irish rower Gavan Hennigan, the fastest Irishman to cross the Atlantic.

Confident people move forward, relentlessly

My favourite way to overcome doubt is to take one tiny step towards it, rarely a giant leap that scares but enough to set me on my way.

I learned to surf with an old friend in Sydney. I remember the moment we caught our first wave. The same wave, same time. Anyone passing might think we cracked it quickly but it was the culmination of three months floundering in the whitewash, every single day. Baby steps, consistently repeated.

Want to speak at a conference? Host a lunchtime session with your colleagues. Want to start a business? Each day, take one step towards creating something of value that people will pay for.

You cannot steer a parked car.

How to build confidence

There's quite a lot we can do to build confidence. But for the lazy, here's a bunch of stuff you can just drop right now. Procrastinating, judging others, making excuses, comparing, consuming negative news and social media and wasting time watching others for fear of missing out.

Action is the crux of it for me. Baby steps build an unstoppable momentum. A small promise kept every day. Build confidence in myself first and the rest will follow. Now you know.

But knowledge without action is not wisdom. So get out of the stands and climb into the arena.

James Parnell is the founder of The WellBeing Gym which provides offline and online workplace wellness, performance and innovation programmes and personal life design coaching; james-parnell.com

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Especially in speaking, the German word "selbstsicher" is often wrongly translated as "self-conscious". However, "self-conscious" generally means the exact opposite of "selbstsicher"!

self-conscious = inhibited, insecure, bashful (in academia, particularly in sociology and philosophy, it can also mean "aware of oneself as an individual")
Example: "Because of my poor German skills I feel self-conscious about giving presentations in German".

The correct English translation for "selbstsicher" is "self-confident" or "confident". Example: "I think he'd be great in PR, he's tactful, eloquent and self-confident".

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Get inspired today. Take the time to do something you love or perhaps even allow yourself to do nothing at all. It's in those moments of stillness that our Be fully We get inspired when we stay soft and flexible and let life lead us down inner voice can come through. That can allow creativity to surface but also your heart to speak to you.

Leave time for play and laughter. They are two precious gifts we often rob ourselves of because we are so focused on our goals and to-do list.
present with those you love and relish their company. Put aside thoughts of "the next thing" whether that's what you will be doing tonight or later this week.
Get inspired by taking the time to slow down and just being. Detach yourself from the thought that you are what you do and that your value is connected to how much you get done.

new paths. Bring back wonder in your life and explore something new today. Wishing you a wonderful Sunday. xx Image by @thescribblerslist

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A few days ago I was having dinner with two friends. As we prepared for an upcoming presentation a simple question was raised: What has inspired you this year?

I am inspired by the teachers I work with every day. This year the teachers at my school and district face many challenges. Budget cuts reduced staff and requires teachers to take on additional responsibilities and duties, while having less time for collaboration. I am inspired because they never stopped putting students first. They could have easily given up and accepted mediocre teaching, but they didn't. They continue to do MORE with less. They have come together to make our school, a community for learning. It would have been easy for them to withdraw into their grade level silos and lose sight of what is best for our students, for our school, but they didn't and they don't. They have analyzed and embraced assessment data, figuring out ways to support at-risk students. The teachers have come together and united with a common vision - to facilitate shared leadership in an effort to increase student achievement as a unified school. I am certain they will make greatness happen.

I have shared my story, what has inspired you this year?

Jen Robinson

Maricopa, Arizona

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