No 1 of Series: Success Factors.
At the end of every week I like to sit down and evaluate the week to make sure I stay on course. One of my biggest questions of course is, did I achieve this week what I set out to do?
Sometimes I fall short of being able to check off the complete list of what was written down at the beginning of the week.
This seems to happen consistently to many people and so I decided it would be good to do a series on some of the reasons why we don’t achieve our goals and what we can do about it.
Today, let’s consider the Distraction Factor.
Distractions show up every day. They constantly come to challenge our ability to stay on course. We live in a very fascinating age, and there is always something new to look at or to play with. Along with the fascinations come the pressures, the problems and even the temptations.
Multitasking arises out of distraction itself. Marilyn vos Savant
I am sure you are VERY familiar with the term “multitasking”. Everyone does it today. How often do you see someone at the wheel of a car talking on their iphone as they are driving?
Worse still their eyes are wandering between watching the road and watching their iphone as they answer a text message or try to conquer the latest game. Then there is the customer service assistant who is talking to you and text messaging someone else at the same time.
Life would be less stressful if we would learn to do one thing at a time. And I am sure we would achieve a lot more. It would certainly be easier to focus on our goals.
The Fox Hunt
I am sure you have at least heard of the English Sport of fox hunting. A group of horse riders go after a poor little fox, along with their well trained fox hounds.
The fox hound is trained to stay on course. Along the way rabbits will continually cross his path, and an untrained fox hound will take a detour from his goal and run after the rabbit. A well trained fox will stay on course.
What was the untrained fox hound’s motivation?
He was more interested in instant gratification, than reaching the bigger prize. He went after something that was right under his nose. Every little attractive distraction caught his attention, and made him forget what he was really supposed to be doing.
The trained hound however, had something else in mind. He was prepared to give us what looked good for something he knew was better. He was after the big prize. In this case the prize was the reward he would receive from his master for trapping the fox.
Checklist to consider today:
Am I reaching my weekly goals?
How many things can I check off of my daily list of things to do?
How many things do I do that are not on my list?
Are they necessary?
Are these things helping me reach my main goals?
How many things am I trying to do at once?
Am I in this race for the big prize or am I content to entertain myself chasing rabbits every day and never achieving anything else?
Let’s forget the distractions and go after the main prize which is to reach our Goals To Success.
To Your Success – You Too Can Be A Champion!
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