Ever feel like your brain is juggling 47 browser tabs—only none of them are loading? That’s what it’s like trying to stay focused as an affiliate manager. Between answering affiliate questions, navigating fast-changing platforms, staying on top of launches, and replying to Slack messages at all hours… staying focused can feel impossible. And regaining it once you’ve lost it? Even harder. In this episode, I’m bringing you a behind-the-scenes recording of a private training I did for a mastermind group, all about how to get focused, stay focused, and bounce back when your focus gets derailed. Whether you’re managing dozens of affiliates or trying to keep your own business on track, these strategies will help you get more done, with less stress.
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How Affiliate Managers Can Get Focused and Stay Focused
You ever feel like your brain is juggling 47 browser tabs only none of them are actually loading? That’s what it’s like trying to stay focused as an affiliate manager. Between answering affiliate questions and navigating fast, changing platforms, staying on top of launches, replying to Slack messages at all hours, staying focused can feel impossible. And regaining it once you’ve lost it, it’s even harder. In this episode, I’m bringing you a behind the scenes recording of a private training I did for a mastermind group. All about how to get focused, stay focused and bounce back when your focus gets derailed.
Whether you’re messaging, whether you’re managing dozens of affiliates or thousands of affiliates, or just trying to keep your own business on track, these strategies will help you get more done with less stress.
Let’s get started. So today I’m talking about something that I think just about every affiliate manager struggles with. How to get focused and once you get focused, how to stay focused and then once you know, when things inevitably go off the rails, once you get unfocused, how to regain focus. And let’s be honest, in the world of affiliate management, distractions are not the exception, they’re the norm. In fact, that’s really true of every profession these days.
Distractions are the norm. You got messages flying in, you’ve got affiliate questions piling up, you got random tech issues popping up, you got, you know, somewhere in there you’re supposed to strategize and lead a big launch or a day to day affiliate program. And it’s just a lot. You know, I was talking with one of our affiliate managers, one of our team members recently about this and even under normal circumstances, staying focused is hard, but in affiliate management when you’re, you’re constantly being pulled in different directions, you know, especially if you have clients, like clients, and you get this, it’s almost like an Olympic sport.
It’s trying to get focused and stay focused and regain it when you lose it. And that’s what this episode is all about. It’s a behind the scenes training I actually did a while back for a mastermind group and I’m joined by my friend Alan Thomas on this and I wanted to share it with you because honestly, it’s some of the most practical advice I’ve ever given on managing your mental bandwidth as an affiliate manager. Now, real quick, a heads up. We did have a bit of an audio hiccup toward the end of this, so you’ll notice that my voice changes a bit. I switched device. I went from the microphone, I’m actually recording this on now to a. I think I used to switch to my phone and I repeat myself slightly because I didn’t know where I left off.
So, you know, there was like a two minute span there where I was trying to reconnect. You don’t have to listen to that. We actually just cut that out, you know. But anyway, I just, I didn’t want to scrap that whole section because the content’s really valuable. So thanks for bearing with me on that and hope you enjoy it and.
All right, well, let’s talk focus. So here’s what someone told me recently. I thought this was kind of interesting. They said, some weeks I’m pumped, focused, energetic and productive. Life is good. I’m mowing down my goals one by one. Then I have a week where it feels like I get nothing done. I have no energy or focus.
What do I do? Probably sounds familiar, right? Well, it doesn’t have to be that way, okay? Distractions, depressions, just, you know, what the heck is going on? You know, why can I not focus it? That’s a normal part of a productive person’s life, especially when you’re an entrepreneur. You know, what was it, the song by Trippin Tyler? You know, hardly working from home. And they say you try getting some, you try getting something done when you can do anything and there’s nobody telling me I have to do anything. I don’t even have to show up today for this if I don’t want to. You know, I’m not going to get fired. My business is still going to be there tomorrow.
You guys might be mad, but it’s still going to be here. You’re the one who’s solely responsible for keeping your eye on your destination. And so today I’m going to show you how to get focused, stay focused and, and regain focus, how to get focus. You know, growing up, I’ve mentioned this many times. I played competitive golf and I always knew about the importance of what’s called a pre shot routine. Okay, so this is, you know, the 20 to 30 seconds before you actually hit the ball or hit the putt, right? But I never worked on it. It wasn’t until college, actually, I got to college, and I made it something that truly set me up to focus on the shot, right? I had a sports psycholog. His name’s Pete Giakabi. Just. I never forget when he called one of the guys on the team and left a message. Pete Giacobi. And his. His girlfriend left a message for his roommate, and it said, peach cobbler called, wants you to call him back. I’m like, I don’t think they got married. You went to school of the south, that’s for sure. I went University of Tennessee. You know, you can tell by the messages.
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Never said I went there for an education, but so I started working with a sports psychologist to really help me in this area. We got this routine down probably until. Until I quit playing due to injury, this routine never varied. I mean, I can still remember it to this day. I would stand behind the ball and have the club here, you know, holding like that. I would put my glove on. Got my glove on.
I already had my glove on. But then what I would do is I would undo the Velcro and tighten it back. Okay, so you think about Velcro, right? That was what I call a focus trigger. That sound of that Velcro. And then I would visualize the shot. You know, I would see it clearly in my mind. I’m looking. Here’s my ball. I want to see it doing exactly what I wanted to do. Then I walked up the ball with the club in my right hand, align myself, took one last look at the target, and swung right. But that focus trigger, to this day, it is. It’s. It’s crazy. The sound of Velcro does something to me, almost like. Almost like robotic. Have you ever seen the movie the Manchurian Candidate? I think the. The ver. I don’t know.
I never seen the original version, which I think had Frank Sinatra, but the version with Denzel Washington and Lee, Lee, Lee Leave Schreiber and Meryl Streep, I think the guy who kind of looks like D*** Cheney in there. And then there’s this other guy. I can’t remember who’s in it. But, you know, they would call up, and the voice would say, like, you know, is this sergeant?
You know, they would like sergeant and then their last name. And then it was like. And then they would say, sergeant, first name and last name. Sergeant, first name, middle name, last name. And instantly, like, they would change. They would shift. And that’s what happened to me with that sound of Velcro. It’s like I got to focus. I gotta focus, right? And, and I, if, if I hear the sound of Velcro even today, I start picturing myself going through that routine.
And the thing is, if I got distracted at any point, like if I, if I was walking up to ball, I’ve already gone through it, I’m walking up to ball and then a bee comes by. Well, that broke me on routine. I would back away, snap the Velcro again, and then I would continue. If my focus was broken, I needed the trigger to refocus. And that, that’s what we wanna talk about. It’s like if you’re going to get focused, you’ve got to be something that triggers it.
You can, you don’t just fall into focus most of the time. So today the trigger for me, my focus trigger is the sound of very specific music that I play to get me in the state of flow. There’s actually only three things that I listen to when I write. There’s. When I write or do any type of like focus work, right? If I have to focus anything for more than a few seconds and I need to get into a state of flow for 45 minutes to an hour and a half.
Like when I was writing my book turn your passions into profit, I was writing 45 minutes and 90 minutes every morning. For months. There was a. I played the exact same song every single time. You can google it. In fact, I’m gonna just google it with you. It’s by the, by the band, the XX intro. XX intro. So literally xx intro, 10 hours. You’ll find a YouTube video. Maybe, maybe Alan can drop that in the chat.
It’s a YouTube video that’s a 10 hour loop of like a two minute song that’s basically the same beat just over, over and over and over and over and over. When I’m doing other focus works, that was my writing focus. So to this day, if I need to do creative work, that’s the song I play. When I go into monk mode. Writing or any type of creation, that’s the song I play. I have a song on Spotify that is. Let me find it here real quick. It is. That’s an alpha.
What is it? Alpha or something like that? Not aloha alpha waves. Focus. You guys can, I don’t know if you guys can hear this, but it’s literally just that it’s two and a half minutes. I’ll put it on a loop and I’ll play it for hours and I won’t come out of focus when I hear that when I hear that song by the xx, when I hear that song, those are my triggers. And then my other one, when I’m doing focus work that involves things that quite frankly bore me to tears, like spreadsheets.
Um, you know, I gotta. I gotta, like, look through. I’m doing like some affiliate work, stuff like that. Um, then I allow myself to hear words, you know, that I’m not. I don’t have to, like, be totally zoned in so I can have kind of something. But I will literally play the same song over and over and over again. By about the third playing, I’m in just like total zone mode. Don’t even hear the words. And I’ll change that song up periodically. I’ve been on the same song for about six months now. But it’s. You know, I just. I have them on my playlist and I play them. And so the key is to find your focus trigger. Right? This is. It might take some time. You know, when I was in college, I.
I tried probably 10 things before we landed on the Velcro. For me, what I. What we discovered with my sports psychologist is I’m more auditory than I am physical. So this. The cool thing about the Velcro is I never noticed it. But even today, if you. If I’m not looking at the camera, if. When I do it, if I don’t play golf anymore, but if I did, I would look. So now what am I doing when I’m looking? Peeling and refastening? I’m engaging pretty much all of my senses. I’m visually doing it, hearing the sound, I’m physically touching it. You know, I mean, I didn’t. Probably didn’t smell the glove, but basically I’m engaging most of my senses there. Right. And you want to find something that’s probably like that.
For me, the playing of the song is physical. I’m clicking a play button. You think, oh, that’s so simple. Yeah. But when I click the play button, even before the song really even starts, I’m in focus mode and then I’m hearing it. And to a certain extent, I’m seeing it because I’m clicking, you know, I’m having to see where the mouse is going to click it. Same thing as if I’m playing it on there. I’m doing those things. And so the idea here is to find what works for you. And that’s how we landed on that.
Because I tried some other things that we’ll talk about as we go along that might work for you, but that didn’t work for me because they weren’t engaging that sound. So number one is find a common but not too common sound. I don’t typically hear Velcro peeling throughout the day. Even on the golf course. It’s pretty common. I might do it, you know, I mean, I hit 35, you know, 36, 37, you know, full shots in a round. Hopefully not more than 37. You know, I’ve played a bad round if I hit more than 37, you know, 32 to 37 of those in a round.
So I hear it some, but it’s not a common sound. You know, it’s not like, you know, some sort of just a common sound. Right. So is there an uncommon sound that song, as much as I play it, outside of the circumstance in which I play it, I have never played that song anywhere other than my computer. I don’t do creative work anywhere other than my computer. So it’s a pretty unusual sound. I don’t listen to that song. I’ve never once listened to that song when I’m working out. I don’t. Maybe I should try that, actually.
I don’t listen to that sound when I’m running. I don’t listen to that sound when I’m doing the dishes. I don’t listen to that sound when I make, you know, that song when I’m doing dinner. It’s this one sound. And so I. It’s an uncommon sound, but it’s a common sound in that it’s not something that’s too hard to find. So I don’t know, it might be. It might even be, like, as simple as, like, closing a drawer. I didn’t catch this until the other day, but one of my focus triggers, it’s sort of become a thing, is opening and closing the drawer under my.
I have my. My monitor sit on basically what amounts of small file cabinets, and I only open and close that drawer before a coaching call. It’s the only reason why I would ever need to get into that side. My. Some of my stuff’s over here, but on the right side is my journals, my coaching journals for our coaching clients. I only open and close that door before or that drawer at the very beginning of a coaching call. And it’s kind of the subliminal, like, coaching call time. Right? You have to work through some, you know, different sounds.
I don’t know. It took a while. We tried different things before we arrived on the Velcro. You could try tap dancing. And I don’t mean like, you know, I can’t tap dance, but I don’t mean that. You know, I need Benveniere on right now. But I remember Jimmy White on our team. One of his triggers that he worked out with because he was more of a physical guy, was he would this. Three taps. No, wait, one. Trying to remember how he did it. Kind of picture him right now. 1, 2, 1, pause, 1, 2, then 4. So he had a specific beat.
Didn’t make much of a sound, although it sort of did. But that feeling was like, this is my time to focus. So is there something repetitive? You know, if you watch. If you watch really good free throw shooters, they go through the same routine every single time. I can still remember mine. I was. Two dribbles, pick the ball up, spin it. Two dribbles, pick it, spin it to where I wanted it, shoot. I mean, I could to this day, you know, I would. If I shoot a free throw, I would just subconsciously go through the exact same routine.
I haven’t shot a free throw in five years, but I guarantee you, if I picked it up and you watched me without missing a beat, it would be two dribbles. Pick it up, spin it once. Two dribbles, pick it up and spin it to right where I want it and shoot. Like. Like I was doing it with my eyes closed, right? So that’s one. You know, tap dance. It might be just something repetitive, right? You know, could be. Could be snapping your fingers. You tell me. If you snap your fingers a lot, that’s not. It’s probably too common. Close your eyes. You know, I mentioned that, right? That’s.
That’s an old, tried and true method to enter focus land. It does not work for me. But some people, if they just close their eyes for 20 seconds, 20 seconds of nothingness, they close their eyes and, you know, it’s so typical. But like, you know, they. They might do an om. You know, they might do a sound. They might even. One of my friends does this. I’m not joking. He just. When it depends on what he’s getting ready to do. But, like, if he needs to focus before doing creative work, say, writing, you know, he. He has a mantra. I forget exactly what it is, but he just literally, he’s like, the words are flowing to me and through me and onto the page.
The words are flowing to me and through me and onto the page, messing that up a little bit. But he says it like five times and boom, he’s in, like, la la land, focused. The other thing about focus triggers is they’re probably right in front of you. They’re probably right in front of you. I used to do a lot of classical music. You know, baroque music would get me into the flow.
That stopped working. I don’t know why, but when it did, the simple act of pressing the button on what I used back then, which was itunes, I was good to go. Right today, you know, if I need to focus and I’m getting ready. Like last night I was at our kids soccer indoors. It’s noisy, there’s so many distractions. So I had my earbuds and I pulled it up on my phone because my earbuds don’t connect to my, my, my Mac. Or they do, but it just goes out.
The Bluetooth is really weak on my Mac for some odd reason. I have no idea why. And so I pulled it up on my phone. I pulled up, pulled open that song by the xx. So I lied. I actually do play it in one other device, and that’s my phone when I’m working on my computer. But my point is, I never play it unless I’m working on my computer. And I pulled it up on my phone and I mean, it was like I started writing at like 5:12. I looked up, it was like 6:34. I finally had to pee. I mean, I had no. Like the whole world was shut out to me.
My point is it’s probably right in front of you. Like it’s something right there. It’s something on your desk. Don’t go looking if it’s right there in front of you. And then just practice, practice, practice, practice, and then move on if it doesn’t work, whatever it is, you know, I. It took me years to find that song by the xx. And I’ve been on that song for three, four years now. How about three? The routine. In college, I was a freshman when I started working with Pete.
It wasn’t until midway through my sophomore year, which ironically is right before I started, you know, really playing really well and was ranked very highly. That’s when I figured out my pre shot routine. That’s when I figured out the Velcro. So give it a fair trial if you’re trying something. But if, you know, but if it ain’t working, just move on to a new one. Try something different. You’re looking for something that might not. Doesn’t necessarily have to be like the thing right away. Oh my gosh, I was in focus land, you know, the moment I did it. But like, okay, that. That might be it. So try it for a few weeks. If it doesn’t Work, move on. So what is your focus trigger? You know, let me know. Do you guys have a focus trigger? Maybe. Maybe you tried one but didn’t work. I’m just curious. Do you guys have a focus trigger? Let me know. Let me know over there. You know, if that’s something that you’re using. I’m curious who’s using that. What about you, Alan? Do you have a focus trigger Music?
It’s. I got a soundtrack of awesome and gets me in. You know, just state, shift, state. What’s on it? Songs that were probably before you’re born that you knew, but things like 80s rock and roll, mostly. 70s, 70s, 80s. Before I’m born. What are you talking about? I know, I know. Well, before you get some Def Leppard on there by chance. No, I like a lot of Angela. Do a lot of Goo Goo Dolls, but even though that’s not it. I know, I know 2000, really? But they used to be a punk. Rock band, you know, that’s how they got started.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. They put the one song on their name, which is still my favorite Goo Goo doll song. And they realized, oh, wow, we can go from selling 4,000 albums in Buffalo of punk rock to selling millions of albums of, you know, top 40, you know, acoustic driven stuff. We’ll go that direction. They. They. They almost quit. Quit. That was at the edge of them quitting. Yeah, he. John Resnick wrote that on his couch in BU while basically looking for a job and that one took off. So it was. It’s pretty inspiring story for people who want to persevere. I mean, it really is because they were ready to. Ready to throw in the towels according to what he told in the concert that we went to right before COVID Nice. And so. But yeah, we’re going to see him. And Angie’s taking me and I’m sure she’s writing in the chat right now. It’s popping up. So yeah, that’s my competition is John Resnick. So.
Nice. That’s awesome, dude. Yeah, I mean, you got something that gets you in that, you know, in that trigger. And I would imagine just pressing like again, it’s gotten to the point where the pressing of that button is. Is the trigger, which is what you want. So that’s awesome. Good stuff there. All right, so now. And let’s see the Rocky song. Genus is the Rocky song. Yeah. The Eye of the Tiger, that’s probably a good one that they played that at the beginning of the. The road. The. The Big Fort for fitness.
They haven’t had it in years because of COVID But the big though doing, they’re doing it this year. So I’m gonna do the half marathon again, man. Too many people are trying to talk me into doing the full marathon, but I’m like, nope, I wanna. I wanna go for time on the half. Like, I wanna. I wanna set a record on the half, not half. Sunfest in April. Nice. So. All right, cool. So now that you are focused, how do you stay focused? You know you’re in the zone. How do you stay there? And the first thing you need to do, keep your space as distraction free as possible.
Like, I am talking go scorched earth on distractions. Whatever is distraction distracting, you get rid of it. Janine says her focus story used to be the theme for Chariots on a Fire. Oh, my gosh. I can just see Eric Liddell going, yes. Sorry. Speaking of distractions, I just got distracted by. Distracted by Janine’s comment there. So whatever. Hey, I’m gonna just turn the chat off because whatever distractions, you know, whatever the distractions are, you need to get rid of them.
That’s okay to have distractions right now because this is what I’m doing. There’s going to be times where you will want a distraction and there won’t be one. So you’ll just kind of have to find something productive to do. And after a few months, it gets easy. This is similar to trying to lose weight. If you tell me that Twinkies are your downfall and then that you eat two every night because they are so tempting, I have an easy fix for you. Stop buying them. Stop buying the dadgum Twinkies. Remove the temptation.
I doubt that if every single night you were going to venture out into a cold, dark evening, start up the car and drive just to get your two Twinkies. Do you know how often I have ever been, like, at 9:30? Gosh, you know, what I really want right now is Dairy Queen. I’ve thought that probably a hundred times in the last five years. You know how many times I’ve actually gone to Dairy Queen? Once. One time I said, you know what? This will be one of this, like, two, three years ago.
I was like, you know, this would be a good opportunity just to surprise the kids. And I took them to freaking Dairy Queen one time. But if I said, you know what I really want right now is Dairy Queen, and then I had a pint of ice cream in the freezer, you know what I would do? Eat it. You ain’t getting out of you’re not going to get dressed or not get, I mean, going naked. But I’m saying, you know, you are not going to put on clothes, get in the car, open the garage door, pull out of the.
I live seven minutes from the nearest place that sells junk food, right? It’s not that far, but it’s far enough. That’s 20 minutes by the time I wait. Like I’m not doing that for freaking ice cream or Twinkies. So you lose the desire and the desire for Twinkies is replaced by a desire to be thin. So again, food, ice cream, Twinkies, whatever, those are distractions from your goal. The same is true with anything. So here’s tip number one. Close all the windows you aren’t using. And I don’t mean your physical windows, I mean on a computer.
If you’re using a computer, close all the windows. There’s no such thing as multitasking. Multitasking is a myth. Okay? You technically do not multitask. You probably all heard this. You technically micro bounce back and forth between things and you’re not able to focus on either one of them. I mean, I know I get distracted sometimes. I’ll be listening to an audiobook while doing something mundane like the dishes. All right? And our family. I’m the primary one that does the dishes just because I actually don’t mind it.
I actually kind of find it cathartic for some weird reason. There are many household chores that I don’t do because I don’t like doing them. But the dishes are the one thing where I just, I don’t know what it is. It’s like, it’s mildly meditative and I’ll be listening to an audiobook and I’ll be so focused on what I’m doing. Washing a dish. Like, how much brain power does it take to wash a dish? And I’m like, what did that author say for the last 27 seconds? I have no idea. Back, back, listen. Oh yeah, okay, I have no idea.
So close all the windows that you aren’t using. Secondly, keep those triggers handy. You know, what are some of your micro triggers? It doesn’t have to be like your focus trigger. Although that could be, you know, okay, you’re distracted. I’m going to keep those triggers handy so I can stay focused. But if for me, that’s why I picked the 10 hour version of XX intro. Although in a pinch, if I can’t access YouTube with the actual 10 hour one, I just go to Spotify and play it and I put it on loop but the problem, and I discovered is when you put it on loop on Spotify, there’s the two.
The two seconds at the beginning of dead space and three seconds at the end of dead space. Five seconds in a row versus on the YouTube thing. It actually literally sounds like the song just keeps going and going and going and going. You think? Five seconds, Matt, Really? Are you. Yes, I am that distractible that in five seconds I can be like, oh, what was I doing? Oh, yeah. Oh, I need to check Facebook. I need to be in that zone. So what are some of those micro triggers I like? For me, one of my micro triggers is this. This exact mug. I only do two things when I’m drinking out of this mug.
I’m either live and right now I’ve got some focus tea and some throat coat tea in there because I’m talking for like four hours today. But normally I just have the focus tee in there and just the simple act of taking a sip of this mug and the taste that I get from it actually is a micro trigger. Certain pins. Certain pins are focus trigger. I only use these pins. These pins are here. I’ve got. We’re actually mailing some to team members. I’ve got a thousand of these pins. No, no exaggeration. They say no product, no problem. One of our courses on them. I only use these pins for two things.
Planning and client calls. Taking notes on client calls. I. I will not. I don’t journal with these pins. I don’t write notes around the house. I know this sounds weird. Like, I’m like, whoa, Matt, you were way ocd. I’m not. It’s just that I know I need to be focused. These are for two things. I don’t know, whatever it is. Like, I don’t know. What are those micro triggers that you could have just readily available. We talked about this. But listening to focused music, you know, find something that works. Find something that works for you. I don’t care what it is. You don’t have to pick my song.
You don’t have to pick the Goo Goo Dolls. You don’t have to pick, you know, anything. You don’t have to pick Chariots of Fire. You just. Just pick something that works for you. So that’s. That’s how you keep your focus. All right? Like I said, the biggest thing is just removing those distractions. You are not going to stay focused if you’ve got things popping up. You know, little things like turning off the toast on your. Your email. That’s what the little pop up is. If you have, if you have notifications enabled on your computer, I get it.
If you work in an office and that’s a culture, but could you find an hour a day where you can turn them off to focus on some deep work? Just an hour. And maybe talk to your boss about it? Like, hey, boss, from two to three every day, two to three, 30, whatever. Can we do an experiment where I turn off all notifications and I work on one thing and then. Oh my gosh. Wow, you’re the copy. You know, let’s say you’re a copywriter. The copies that you wrote is so much better. Jim. Wow, Luke, your work is so much better.
Hey, so boss, can I do that from 10 to 11 every day and two to three? Yeah. Well, heck yeah. You’re getting results. Well, hey, look. Oh my gosh. Wow, we’re doing even. Hey boss, can I do that from 10 to 1130 and maybe 130 to 3 and you just keep expanding it. I get it if you’re in a culture, but if you’re an entrepreneur, turn off all notifications. I mean, I don’t know who on my team is on this, but I’m gonna tell, I’m gonna tell my own team this. You know what?
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I want you to respond quickly to me because when I want something as the boss, I want it now. Naturally. But I’m a patient person. Not really, but I’ll pretend to be patient and I can wait. Here’s the deal. If I’m on a call with you and I’m like, here, let me slack that to you real quick. Boom, boom. I’m not expecting you to respond just like I want. And I hear I can’t even do the sound. I don’t even know the sound that it makes. When you send a Slack message, turn it off.
You don’t need to know that. I slacked you right now. Slack is asynchronous communication. Email is asynchronous communication. I don’t email you or slack you with an expectation that you’re going to respond in real time. If I want real time, I will slack you and say we need to jump on a 15 minute call so we can dialogue through things. I don’t slack or email in real time. I slack an email asynchronously. I slack an email when it is convenient for me. Why? So that I can go focus on other things.
So turn off all notifications, close every window, every app. I know for me, text message is only one person that can get through via text message. When I’M in focus mode. And that’s my wife. She’s not on the. I will tell her, hey, I’m going into focus mode. And she knows, like, okay, don’t text Matt to say, what do you think about this shirt? You know, right now? And that’s a few hours a day. I’m not doing that to my wife all day long. But she knows when I’m writing. I need 90 minutes where just. There’s nothing. Now, during those 90 minutes, if she texts me and says, oh, my gosh, Araceli left her homework at, you know, at the house, is there any way you. Okay, that’s different. There’s a level of urgent. Actually, no, I’m not bringing her homework she left at home. She’s gonna have to pay the consequence, but.
Yeah, get out. Yeah, yeah, exactly. A phone call. Hey, I got a message from the alarm company. Our alarm’s going off. Do you know why that is? Nope. I had my headphones in and I’m way, way from the alarm, so I’m not going to hear it. Probably shouldn’t have said that, but either way, the cops are on their way, so. Hey, can you go turn that off or go check and see if there’s an intruder? All right, so the point is to stay focused. Right now, the reality is we’re going to lose focus.
I’m in focus mode. I’m writing. And 42 minutes in, I realize I’m cold. Cold, huh? That’s interesting. I’m kind of cold, man. Now I need to go. Let me go over here. I’ve got a space heater in my office. Let me go over and bring that over. Okay, where was I? Alright, so how do I, you know, how do I do that? Right? You’re going to have some distractions. You’re going to have interruptions. Giovanni is going to come downstairs in the middle of focus time, even though there’s a sign on the door.
I don’t put that sign up very often. Most of the time, I don’t care if the kids come down. I could be right now, our kids aren’t here. They could come down right now. I would not care. I mean, I love it. Come say hi. Most of our clients have met our kids on Zoom. Most of them have met them multiple times. Alan’s met him. You know, we’ve been talking al. Giovanni just wanders down here and like, wait, he wants to say hi. I think almost everybody on our team’s met Giovanni.
Almost everybody on our team has met my dog. You know, things are Going to happen. Some are good, some are bad. Now you need to refocus. What do you do? I got an email from somebody in our audience recently. Said, I’m just starting my business and I work by myself. Many of you can relate to that. Hey, Denise, let’s actually answer Denise’s question real quick. I’m thinking, and I can’t think of a micro trigger, which means that I need to get or create one. Let’s get back to that.
Just real quick. As I saw her question come in again, it’s probably something you already use. It’s probably something you already do for me. You know, when I write, it’s. It’s 95% of times in the morning I get up and write within 35, 40 minutes of. Of waking up. My focus trigger is. Is the start of that music. But I actually. The focus trigger, really, if you go back about seven or eight minutes, is right before I write. And I’m not writing right now. I’m not writing.
There’s nothing I’m writing, you know, other than emails right now. So I’m not doing that. But when I am writing, you know, books or whatever, I do a quick workout. It’s not like my full workout. I’m not like, oh, I’m, you know, trying to, like, lose weight or, you know, I’m just trying to get my body, you know, up, get my heart rate up, be awake more without all the stressors of caffeine. I do have my cup of coffee that I sip over the course of a few hours. And that cup of coffee, the actual taste and the feeling of that coffee in that specific mug is like my micro trigger. It’s not joking. Like, literally every sip that I take, I kind of snap back in a little bit. I get a little bit more focused. I don’t know what it is for you, but it’s something that’s there.
Another easy one is superhero pose. Stand up and just get your body in the superhero state. Because when we shift down and we lean down. No, hands to the side. Hands. Oh, hands to the side. Yeah, hands to the side like you’re standing up. It’s hard to be hard to be weak in that state or to feel weak. Yeah, it could be that. It could be any. Like I said, it could just be little micro triggers. You know, it could be taps, a certain song. It could be sometimes. So I have a friend of mine who actually is a writer, and he said when he hits. He said when I hit, like a blank page, I close the app, you know, so he writes in Scrivener, I believe. But whatever it is, it could be Word, it could be Google Docs. He closes it and then reopens it.
And the reopening is the trigger. And he’s like, it works every time, you know, and you may have to do it like two or three times, but it works every time. So back to what this person said here real quick. I’m just starting out. I work by myself. I know many of you can relate. Sometimes I can go all day focused. Sometimes I can only. Sometimes I can go, go, only go. Okay, Sometimes I can only go for hours. But when I lose my focus, I am done for the day.
I cannot get it back. Any suggestions? Yes, yes, yes, yes. Number one, tell yourself it’s okay. Like, this is normal. No one is, you know, the best motivational speakers in the world, Zig Ziglar, Eric Thomas, Tony Robbins, all these super, highly productive Elon Musk people. They are not totally motivated, pumped up and focused 24 7, 365. It is impossible. I don’t know what you’re going through in life, but if there’s something that, that is, that is causing this relationally or physically or emotionally, then take care of that.
Maybe that’s the thing. If you’ve lost a friend, take some time to mourn. I mean, a lot of us have to do that in the last couple of years. Be pretty hard pressed to find somebody who doesn’t know someone who died in the last two years. Really. Truth is, in any two year period, it’s pretty hard pressed to find someone who doesn’t know someone who’s died, but someone that’s close to you, you know who died. Take time to mourn. That’s why you’re, that’s why you’re not focused.
You’re in mourning. I don’t want to help you get focused today. You need time. If you’re sick, get your rest. You do not have to be on all the time. Consistency is not about going 100% every minute of the day. It’s about managing your uptime and your downtime, not turning bad moments into bad days, and bad days into bad weeks, and bad weeks into bad months into bad years. Everybody has bad days. Steve Jobs had bad days. The President of the United States, all of them have had bad days.
I mean, imagine that job. It’s like, you know, Brian Regan, the comedian talks, but he’s like, imagine having a job where you just wake up every day and it’s like, problems, problems, more problems. You know, there’s always going to be a city in your country as big as this. There’s always going to be a city where there’s some sort of unrest or some sort of a problem. Some sort of a place is going to have a pipe break that causes a drinking water problem. It somehow becomes the President of the United States fault.
I don’t care what political party you’re in, there’s always going to be a war somewhere in the world, more than likely. And sadly, there’s going to be something going on. There’s going to be a natural disaster somewhere in the country. Imagine that’s your job now. Try to have a bad day. Imagine. Imagine having the flu and being President of the United States. That would suck, you know. So the point is, tell yourself it’s okay. Everybody has them. Do what you need to do to take care of the underlying problem. Maybe it’s, you know, relational stress.
Maybe. I don’t know, it could be a health issue. Take care of your health first. Screw being focused. Go take care of the health problem. I remember specifically I had. Alan, you remember this, you know about right at the beginning of COVID actually. Yeah. I haven’t shared this super publicly and I’ll answer your question in a little bit, Luke. But I was in so much pain. I had a thing called List Launch Challenge. We were doing it live. If you’re interested in growing your list, by the way, Evergreen wise, just go to listlaunchchallenge.com and you can get the recordings.
But I was doing it live and I was in so much pain at one point that I had to. I was doing it like I was doing here, but I was sitting. But it was hurting so bad I had to lie down. And thankfully I played like a five minute video. It was like a two. I was live like two hours a day. And about halfway through I play a five minute video and I ran upstairs and went to the bathroom. And then I came down and I took my monitor. I had three monitors. I took this monitor right here and I put it right here and tilted it all the way down so I could look. I was laying right here on the ground.
I took this microphone, I don’t think I had this particular boom mic. And I took, I took. I had it over here. It’s over by my bag now. I took the microphone stand, I put it by my, like, by my head. And I had the monitor with my notes this way. I had the keyboard over here. And I remember like trying to press, you know, the buttons and stuff to try to you wouldn’t have known because I was just doing slides. But I was in so much pain that when I was done with that, I didn’t try to get anything else done that day. That lasted for weeks.
And then I went and got, you know, I got some stuff tested out, and then they were saying the most likely cause was prostate cancer. Well, that’s super fun to find out. Yeah, I had a really hard time focusing for the next week and a half until I knew that it wasn’t that, because I’m thinking I might have freaking prostate cancer. You know? And then I had surgery, and you know what? I couldn’t focus for about 24 hours because I was still high. I mean, I was loopy from the. From the anesthesia and the pain medication.
And then I was loopy for another three days because I couldn’t sleep. And then finally I was better. And you know what? My focus magically came back after six weeks of being completely unfocused. Was it the focus triggers? Was it the song that I was playing? Nope. It was because I wasn’t in pain and I wasn’t on pain medication, and I didn’t think that I might die soon. So those things are normal. Work through those things. Right? Secondly, when you need a lift, get a lift, man. I’m having a hard time focusing. Then go. Go listen to some Goo Goo Dolls, Alan. There you go.
Listen to whatever. I. Sometimes the folk. I get distracted, and you know what I need? I need to go outside. I need to go outside. I’m not superhuman. I just need to go outside, go for a quick walk, see some sunlight, listen to a different song. After an hour of the same song on repeat for two minutes, I just need a different song. And it doesn’t have to be a focus song. Two of my favorites, actually, probably my biggest favorite is Proud Mary by Ike and Tina. Talk about it in school.
That’s old school. I’ve seen Tina. She’s awesome. I can. Tina Turner. When it’s. You know, when it talks about, we’re going. We’re going to start off nice and slow, but we don’t do nothing nice and slow. We do it nice and hard. And the. You know, it’s that the beginning is just kind of like this. It’s kind of like that. And then all of a sudden, and it just goes. And I’m like, I can’t help it. I’m gonna dance. And the energy that I feel, boom. I’m good. My heart rate’s up. I got kind of got some of that angst out, maybe I might have been standing there for an hour and 20 minutes in a row writing and, you know, not. I’m barely moving and all of a sudden I just got my heart rate up and moved a bunch in like a two minute period of time. Very few songs on earth will make me dance like a crazy person. Like that song. There’s no improper way to dance to Proud Mary. At least the I can Tina version.
That’s what our soundtrack. Awesome. I’ll even do some Jackson 5, little ABC, you know, stuff like that. And I mean, because you can’t feel bad when you’re listening to those songs of your childhood. And yeah, so it’s really. Music’s a bit. Music’s a big, big way to shift. It is so another one. Movie clips. I don’t know what it is, but the scene in, in Gladiator when, when Combatus comes down and, and, and asks him to remove his mask and he turns his back on him and turns around and says, my name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the armies of the north, you know, servant of the, you know, the true emperor Marcus Aurelius.
Like, you know, and he keeps going and he says, I will have my vengeance in this life or the next. And I’m like, oh, like I want to run through a brick wall. Okay. What does that have to do with focus? Nothing. I just feel good. It’s a dopamine hit. We talk about the dangers of social media and like dopamine hits and all those things. Yeah, those are dangerous. Right? We can’t just be like, you know, we can’t be like the rat that they use in the experiment that, like when he could click the button that would give him an or eat any. Like, some of them would just literally, they would essentially o***** themselves to death. Right. Because of the dopamine. They would get so addicted to the dopamine, they would die because they wouldn’t eat.
Okay, we don’t want to go to that extreme, but sometimes I need a little healthy dopamine hit. Whether it be I can Tina. The scene from Gladiator. Little Braveheart. You know, there’s. There’s some other movie scenes that I’ll watch and I just, I take three minutes to watch YouTube, for Pete’s sakes, and I get in a better place and then I go back to my focus music. I go back to my trigger and I’m good to go.
So if you need a lift, get a lift. If you need a break, get a break. If you need to go, there’s poems. What is it? Red Frost motivation. Google Red Frost Motivation. And I mean, that’s like their poetry. Guys. If there’s maybe there’s a poem you need to read. I mean, some of their stuff, like some of the stuff by Roomie, the one I was just listening to today that I just love the version he does of Rise Up. I mean, it’s like chilling, you know, do not go gentle into that good night. Dylan Thomas, one of my favorites. If by Rudyard Kipling, you know, poetry, like just hearing poetry, reading poetry. What. I don’t know what it is. Whatever it is for you. Go, go take a break and just take that break, right? Whatever works for you is what’s that? Whatever works for you is what is best for you. I don’t have the answer for that one.
Don’t force it at first. You know when you feel like. If you feel like you’re losing focus. I probably should have said this before I said the last thing. Stop. I’ve lost focus. Go for a walk. Go watch Gladiator. Go watch Braveheart. Call your spouse. Do anything other than sit and go, oh, I need to focus. I need to focus. I need to focus. That’s like saying, I need to not eat that Twinkie. I need to not eat that Twinkie. Not eventually, you gonna eat the Twinkie. You know, this is not the time to go. Well, I can’t focus on writing. I’m gonna go check my email. No, I’m gonna go read the news. Oh, God, that’s a dumb idea. No, just get away for me. I’m on a computer. I work on a computer. Have you ever thought about that? Just as a side note, could you imagine as a child, I was going to. Literally, my entire. The. The sustenance, the way I feed my family was going to be through a screen. Pretty awesome.
It’s weird to think about. If you really think about it, it’s really awesome. This is what I do for a living. And there are no known deaths from working online either that I’m aware of. Yeah, there could be. I mean, you could argue there are, but. But I don’t know. Definitely not as many deaths as like high rise construction worker. That’s right. Or. Or commuting, for that matter.
You know, Commuting. I mean, but the point is that’s what I do all day, so checking the news, you know. Again, I said, well, what about watching Braveheart and Gladiator? Okay, a little bit different. First of all, I usually watch them on My phone. I usually go upstairs, grab a drink or a snack while I’m doing it. You know, things like that. But okay, duly noted.
That’s why I said that’s probably the rare of the two. Usually it’s, I’ll just go check the mail. Just go check the mail. Gets me outside, you know, get a little bit of vitamin D. On most days, sometimes I’ll just pick up the phone and call somebody, talk about. I’m not gonna. I’m not gonna call like an affiliate or something like that. I’m gonna call like, you know, somebody and talk about nothing for five minutes. Go upstairs and play with the kids. That’s usually fun. Go have a tickle fight with a dog. I mean, if I get unfocused, that’s one of the best ways to break it, is just go upstairs and chase after him. He’s crazy. Get away from your normal environment. Refine your focus trigger. Okay. All right, so it’s been 45 minutes. You got unfocused. You go watch Gladiator. You go outside, you check the mail. You got to do.
You got to redo the focus trigger. Now there’s been 50 minutes. So I turn the music off. That’s the big thing. I’ve decided to stop. I turn the music off. What I don’t want to do is come down the stairs and hear the music. I’m not ready to focus. I’ve still got to walk all the way over there. I’m not ready to focus till I get over there. Remember, it’s. It’s kind of weird. It’s like psychology, right? I don’t rip the Velcro and then check my yardage in golf. I ripped the Velcro in a specific part of the pre shot routine. So refine that focus trigger. One of the best things you can do on your little break is get hydrated, get fed, you know, whatever. Now, I’m. I’m not a weight loss coach like Alan here, but if you’re hungry, you’re generally hungry. If you’re healthy and you’re hungry, might be a good time to eat A healthy snack.
If you’re first, then hydrate first, then eat. If you’re thirsty, drink. If you’re not thirsty, drink anyway. That’s right. Most people eat when they’re thirsty. Water mildly caffeinated. Drinks green tea. I learned, you know, I learned. I learned just recently why. And this, there’s some in this why green tea so much better. It’s because green tea not only has the caffeine but it has naturally occurring L Theanine.
I use, I used to use L theanine as a supplement because it actually somehow like binds the caffeine and makes the caffeine less, takes away a lot of the negative effects of caffeine. That’s why the green tea and caffeine is a completely different caffeine than black tea or coffee. Do not go get a Starbucks double mocha grande latte, blahbity blah blah blah. That’s going to basically give you instant diabetes. Okay. Eat the low glycemic foods. Make sure you, you know, you eat and drink things that are, that are healthy. Me, it’s this with just a little bit of MCT oil because that slows down the absorption of the caffeine, makes it not like where I’m going to be like for a few minutes and then you know, it just keeps it going for hours and hours and hours at a low level.
Make sure that you eat and drink away from your normal work environment. So no, like I said, get up or walk away. I, I, I don’t think that sitting there going I’m going to sip this tea at my computer while checking my email is a good break. Nope, I’m going up, I’m going to do all of these things.I’m going to get hydrated. Typically, you know, when I’m really, really focused, while I might sip a little bit of water, I don’t drink a lot and I probably low level dehydration.
So great, I’m going to go up and I’m going to drink like 20 ounces of water with I put a little bit of Himalayan pink Himalayan sea salt, splash of lemon juice and a splash of monk fruit to take the edge off the salt. And I down that and I’m pretty hydrated like very quickly. So little things like that. Right. But do it away from your work environment when you walk away. Review, make a list or review your list.
So for me, when I walk away, great. I focus for an hour. I’m, I’ve lost focus, I need to regain it. So I need my little five minute break. I take my, my planner up and I just go through and go, okay, here are my three things for today. I’ve done this and this. I’m halfway through this, okay. And I just say, okay, what are my next few steps?
What are the next three things I need to do as soon as I walk in to accomplish this number two task? It’s probably not checking your email, you know, probably not checking social media. What are they and you come back and you do those, remember your purpose. Like I remind myself of my purpose. That’s why I, I’m not advocating for it. I do recommend it, but I’m not necessarily saying you need one. But I use the full focus planner from Michael Hyatt. If you go to mattmcwiams.com toolbox, you’ll see an affiliate link there for the planners. I recommend trying it out because one of the things that it allows me to do is have my planner right there. You can and constantly refer back to my goals. And so I like, I remind myself why I’m even in business. Why. Why is finishing this chapter today important? Why, why is it?
Well, because my books launch in January 10, 2023, and according to my calculate, you know, my, my outline, my edits are due by March 7th. If I don’t finish this chapter today, it means I gotta do two chapters tomorrow, which is going to be really challenging, which means I’m not going to have the edits back in time. And it sets off a chain reaction.
And so if you’re working a job you don’t particularly love, you find it hard to focus, you’re daydreaming all the time, you know, remind yourself that, you know what, this pays for my food, it pays for my home, it pays for my kids going to school, whatever, you know, whatever it might be. If you’re in a job that you love and there are aspects that you don’t like. I mean, there’s aspects I don’t enjoy. I’ve gotten it down to about an hour or two a week that I truly don’t enjoy. But I don’t enjoy analyzing data. I enjoy, however, analyzing the data and finding out, hey, we had a record month last month as we did, you know, I don’t think anybody. Alan, you don’t enjoy having to go into PayPal and send money to Affiliate the active, but you sure enjoy the fact that you had to send affiliate. You sent me a message today. You just had. You just sent more money to one partner than you’ve ever sent anyone last month. That part’s enjoyable.
Yeah. Just in some more of this right before getting on the call. Love it. Just a few other things real quick, guys. You know, obvious things might, might be clean your desk. You know, eliminate clutter, vacuum, get things in order. One warning, and this ties in with the, the seventh thing, which is to rearrange. Sometimes just a little bit of a change of environment can, can mix it up. You could put a new picture up, could move your Desk a little bit. This sounds like the silliest thing, but if there are. I found that the craziest little thing will help me. I’ll move my monitors. It’s actually good for your eyes, too. I’ll just move them back two inches. They’re just. Just enough farther away that it changes the perspective on everything.
You know, I mean, it’s like if I move here, it’s just a little bit different for my eyes than right here. Little things like that. I’ve got two keyboards that I switch between. They’re almost exactly the same, but they feel just a little bit different. And I’m not joking. They’re just enough different because the command key. It’s the weirdest flipping thing. The command key and the option key are so switched on the two keyboards. I use a Windows keyboard on a Mac because I like the ergonomic keyboard. And that one little change is. You think it’d be a distraction, but it actually helps me to focus because I have to think about where my thumb’s going when I copy and paste is the weirdest thing. That little change. I’ll just re. I’ll just change them up periodically. For no other reason than. It’s just something different right now. Don’t spend well. I can’t really focus. So I’m going to do. I’m going to do like a friend of mine does and like I’ve done before, I’m going to spend the next four hours rearranging my office.
Yeah. Now it’s. It’s 15 minutes Looks like the admiral I think it’s McRaven. Yeah That. Make it Making the bed Yeah. Want to change the world. Here’s that video, too. Somebody wants to see it. He does not suggest you should spend an hour making your bed. Five minutes. Five minutes to change the world. Yeah. He actually wrote a book on it. Making your bed. Oh, no. It’s called make your bed. Yep. Yeah. I have a cool story about Admiral Craven, but I don’t have time for that right now. When you’re taking that break, set a deadline, so come back and say, okay, whatever part it is. So I’m gonna finish. I’m. I’m writing. Let’s see. I’m planning our content for the month of, you know, June, and I got through June 10th.
It took me 45 minutes. When I come back, I’ve got an hour and five minutes. I’m setting a timer. Boom. I’ve got to do it, like, make a game out of it. And if I hit that hour and Five minutes. Then let’s say it’s, you know, that puts you at 2 o’ clock and maybe you plan on working till 5 and, you know, you have about another two hours.
Then my reward is that from, you know, 2 to 3 or whatever the math is. I said there, I’m going to, I’m going to go goof off. And you think, well, could I have probably just spent two hours doing the content calendar? Sure. I could spend two hours doing it kind of halfway, or I could spend an hour and 5, 10 minutes, like lasered in all out. You know, you can, you can really, you could do the same thing in a shorter period of time and then still have, you know, the 45 minutes to goof off. So it’s totally up to, up to you, you know, how you do it. But basically, you know, I recommend setting a deadline is where I was going with that. What was, what’s next down? What did I say? I have no idea.
Keeping a journal. Keeping a journal, you know, keep. So I remember years ago when, so when I was in college, we had a trainer named Matt Riley. And I was trying to, at that time, actually, I was trying to gain about 10 pounds, believe it or not, I was trying to gain about 10 pounds of muscle. And, and I remember it’s like, what do I do? And he’s like, keep a journal. Write down everything you eat, everything you do, like how you felt. And he’s like, what, you know, supplements you took everything, right. And the objective was to identify, you know, okay, if I had, you know, three eggs and this for breakfast in my workout was bad, you know, and I, and I did this and, you know, that week I had this much protein or in fat versus this, and here’s what I gained and you know, like how I did my workouts and just all these things, right?
Like, how did I, no matter what it was, I kept a journal and I would go back and analyze it with him. And the same is true, like, keep that journal about, you know, here’s my focus trigger and what that did for me and things like that. But see you, Janine, you know, just keep a journal and just document what you’re doing. There’s my computer. Just randomly now it’s restarting. That’s the weirdest thing.
I’m wondering if it’s just going to log me into this on the other thing. Wants to see if it does. I’ll just show now it’s, it’s gonna to be a minute. So, yeah, keep a journal of, of your experiences. You Know, looking back, like, I, I do this with food now because I’m trying to figure out, like, you know, occasionally I’ll have an upset stomach and like, okay, what is it, you know, what is it that causes the. The upset stomach? And what I found is it’s, you know, it’s typically, for the longest time, we thought it was wheat. And it’s. It’s actually not really. It’s not wheat, you know, that does it. It’s that when I think about, when do I personally, I don’t really eat sandwiches and I don’t eat buns. When do I eat wheat? I eat wheat with pizza and it’s actually dairy because that’s about the only time I really eat dairy either.
What you. What you measure? I’m not lactose intolerant. Yeah, I’m lactose sensitive. And so I wouldn’t have known that if I didn’t literally go back and say, okay, when, When. Well, what was this? And I was like, well, I didn’t have an upset stomach then. I. Wheat then I didn’t have an upstate stomach. Oh, I had ice cream and, you know, my stomach was upset. Oh, well, that’s not wheat. You know, so. So finally kind of made the connection. So. Yeah. Keep a journal. Next one is how to handle distractions. Now you regain your focus and you got to witness it. Just finding a way. You got to witness it, didn’t they? Sorry, I couldn’t hear you, Alan. What was that?
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I was saying the next. The next one is how to handle distractions and how to regain your focus was. Yeah. Which they just got to witness. You got a what they just got to witness. Witness how you handle distraction. You found a way. Yeah. Yeah. How do you guys handle distractions? You know, how do you regain your focus? So love to hear in the chat. I do want to address real quick Luke’s question or Luke’s comment there. I’m a solopreneur at the moment, so finding the balance between family and work is a daily exercise.
I’m a single father with a day job going is a goal is to go full time entrepreneur, man. You’re a hero, dude. I mean like just like single other single dads and single moms and, you know, any of that stuff, you know, balance is hard, you know, especially like you said, you have a day job, you know, too, in addition to being a father. So Luke, just keep at it. You know, your thing is to find those pockets of time where, you know, an hour or two here, you know, you got to go all in with the focus. I can get away with being distracted for an hour. I can get away with going up. It’s easier for me to say, like, I can go up and play with the dog for 45 minutes, you know, and just decide I’m not going to work for 45 minutes.
The consequences for me are existent. You know, I mean, don’t get me wrong, that means I’m gonna have to probably do something later, but I can get away with that. And just to be totally transparent, you can’t. And so you’ve just got to kind of really be all in focused when you are. When you are focused, shorter bursts, you know, my recommendation, a lot of people are like, oh, I just want to work at night.
I might want to put in 45 minutes in the morning. You know, that. That might be my recommendation. There is, you know, put in 45 minutes in the morning and then put in some time at night. So you’re not always giving your. Your day job, you know, your best. Mark Siever Crop used to be on our team. Many of you remember him. I used to love. He would. He would.
He would tell me, he would text me at like, you know, noon, my time, which would be like 9am his time before he worked for us. And he would work on his business, his business in the morning. And then he would say, I’m going to my second job. Now, most people would call it the other way around. And you’d say, I’m going to my second job. And just that mindset shift of like, no, I’m going to put my best time, my best mind, my best brain power into my dream. And then I’m going to give my second job the rest of it, you know. All right, I hope this episode gave you some stuff that you can put to use to help you get focused, stay focused, and bounce back again when those inevitable distractions hit. So whether you’re managing a team, you’re running a big affiliate program, you’re running a launch, maybe you’re just trying to survive a busy week. I’ve got one of those this week.
You know, I’ve got a short week because of a soccer tournament coming up. And so I’ve got to stay focused for the three and a half days that I can actually work. I have got to stay focused. I am using what I taught in this episode to really say and stay and to get focused, to stay focused and, you know, when it’s still going to lose it, to bounce back and recover and get back on track. So these, these tips can really move the needle on this, so I hope they help you.
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