An Image You Should Tattoo on Your Forehead

If this image doesn’t speak to you, let me tell you why it does to me.

I suffer from shiny-object-syndrome (otherwise known as SOS).

Meaning – any topic, project, business idea, book, service project, or anything that looks remotely interesting to me causes me to start to research and think about that thing non-stop.

I go down a lot of enjoyable rabbit holes, and get distracted quite easily.

I’ve had to learn how to taper (SOS) so I don’t spend all of time thinking about ideas instead of actually getting things done.

However, things often slip though the cracks and I still somehow end up with 3-5 unrelated projects from my main goal.

Often, my life looks a lot like the “Multiple Projects” scenario on the left:

Multiple projects.

My physical, mental, and emotional energy is spread thin across 3-5 projects, which creates the illusion of feeling productive, but is actually inhibiting my true progress.

Sure, I learn a lot by doing multiple things at once, but I’m not making real progress towards the things I REALLY say I care about.

Why do I do this?

Because working on multiple projects feels safe – I’m supposedly “diversified”.

If Project #1 doesn’t work out, I still have Projects #2-5!

It’s easy to let a project or two fail, because it’s not my only focus.

Here’s the truth you and I really need to accept:

Focus is how you get ahead. Concentrating everything you have on 1 specific goal. You’ll achieve faster, and be more satisfied with your life and work.

Your work will become more meaningful, because you’re forced to focus on only ONE THING. It’s requiring all of you.

This is the same principle we teach in our Personal Finance Accelerator Program, with the Financial Roadmap, or 3 Phases of Wealth.

You will achieve your financial goals faster if you focus on one financial goal at a time.

That’s how we and over 350+ others have achieved financial goals fast.

It’s how we paid off $20,000 of debt in six months as college students, saved a 6-month emergency fund, maxed our our Roth IRAs for years, paid for the medical birth expenses for our daughter in cash, saved a down-payment on a home and so much more.

Focusing on those things 1 at a time.

So, if you’re like me and suffer from Shiny-Object-Syndrome – get intellecually real with yourself.

Ask yourself what project matters the most.

Focus only on it.

Cut all the rest.

Click Here for Darius Foroux’s original article. (He created the image).

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