Staying Focused

Build your life around what matters.

If you don’t take control over your schedule the world will.

A brother at the mosque told me his days are built around his prayers, as that’s his biggest priority.

An old friend in high school told me that his days are built around his smoking habit.

Both are very focused on what they give the most power too and they do enjoy their main tasks a lot.

Finding or committing to what you want to exceed in doesn’t come from yourself or the activity itself. But from the feeling you get from the action.

If what you hold the most importance too gives you more pleasure over a feeling of purpose, you must stop it entirely or cut it down to a point where it doesn’t control you.

If you don’t have anything positive that can replace your previous negative focus you must try new things.

It starts by looking at what you don’t have, looking back to times where you hated everything the most and ask yourself.

“How can I ensure this never happens again.”

For a good majority of people it will either have to do with money or purposeless work.

For me, I lived a fairly broke childhood, so my main focus is work to ensure baby-Issa lives a G life.

Whatever had held you back the most or gave you the worst feelings, needs to be the problem you solve and what you direct the majority of your focus too.

Now, you have something positive to work/stay focused on, now you can actually work on being focused and persistent with your work.

If you’re very invested into something and it means a lot to you, it’s easy to be motivated every day.

You’re also very motivated when you start, but in the bigger middle of this line, you won’t always be motivated or feel like doing the work and being focused on the target.

You need a combination of discipline, and motivation to achieve quality work.

Motivation itself comes to me from doing the work and getting praise. When others tell me that they like my videos, I get motivated to do more.

Motivation paired with discipline will make you unstoppable, find ways to get praised for the work you too do.

If you can’t get praise then set up a reward system for yourself.

Go out and eat something nice every time you record a video. Let yourself relax a bit after getting your workout in for the day.

Do something you like after doing something you don’t like or didn’t want to do.

The main way I focus on my actual work and what I’d recommend to anyone struggling with it is by setting “periods” for yourself.

Like what we have in school, give yourself 1-6 one hour time blocks where you just do one task that gets you closer to what you’re aiming for.

My main time-blocks are writing, recording, and working on my business.

A couple amazing time blocks you can add to help improve your overall focus is reading, gym, and a relaxation block.

Of course being in good shape and staying active only improves cognitive power.

When you relax your brain rests. Video games, scrolling and gooning is not rest.

Reading, walking, spending times with friends, etc, is rest.

Don’t overstimulate your brain for pleasure and call it rest.

To stay locked in/focused during your 1 hour time blocks, you need a trigger to set the tone. At least I find them very helpful.

Spraying yourself with a mist, chewing gum, closing your blinds, etc. Small things you do just before you begin work helps especially in the longterm because you slowly program your brain into thinking that this action results in this behaviour.

You also have these triggers for all your bad habits. Remove them and quitting anything becomes 10x easier.

When you have triggered your flow state you can’t let any distractions pop up, or else you fall out of your flow state and lower your productivity.

The biggest non-negotiable is a phone. I like to do all of my work either in the morning or at night, when no one is awake, and everything’s quiet.

Regardless of if you have any creative ideas, clues on what to work on, etc, it’s easier to get them done because your vision will be only focused on whats in-front.

Your actions before you start your work and your ability to remove all possible distractions is all you need for great focus on your work.

And being able to focus on the task in front is more important than performance itself.

Consistent persistency when chosen is more scalable than someone who performs well only when they feel like it.

Feelings constantly change, fixed schedules don’t change.

No matter what you do, never lower your current work load and show up to each days time period(s) you set for yourself.

Because at the end of the day, if you can’t keep your word to yourself, everything else can fall as fast as it took you to get there.

Hopefully this helped with becoming and staying focused on your main priority task(s) as it’s helped me for the past few years with my business and other endeavours.

My last ask is for you to join the BlueBase community, it’s free, isolation is dangerous and growing with others only helps fast-track the process.

Thank you for reading.