Is Lack of Focus Getting in the Way to Your Success?

[MARKDOYLE]

I have a severe case of ADD. If I’m not doing a thousand things at a time, I feel the strong need to find more stuff to do. However, this is a really bad trait and I’m working really hard to change it. These are three short stories of how my lack of focus undermined my success. My Video Production Company
A lot of our clients needed videos made so I decided to start a video production company. The plan was always to partner with a professional video producer, but I wanted to learn more about the industry, so I started reading books, taking classes on video editing and analyzing our competition.
Two weeks later I lost a really big client in my main business (my Internet marketing agency) because I completely neglected her and she didn’t give me a second chance. I lost a $15,000/month contract for wasting time learning skills I didn’t even need.
So I decided to let my partner run the business and I now send him clients. I still own half of the business, but I spend only an hour a week working on it. Is it making as much money as it would if I were running it full time? Probably not, but you only have so many hours a day and you have to use them in whatever moves you farthest toward your goal.
Training Our New Salesman
In January we got a lot of great leads so we decided to hire a new salesperson. I normally spend two months training every new hire, but I had a lot on my plate at that moment and only spent two weeks with him.
His performance was less than impressive and I realized it was because I didn’t spend enough time training him. Sales was our top priority at that point and I was spending zero time working on it. Stupid, right? If something is your top priority, you’d think that’s what you’d spend most of your time on, right?
I decided to delegate a bunch of smaller tasks and focus on training my new hire. His closing ratio doubled in only three weeks.
Traveling Around Asia
When I was 20 I was running an e-learning company and traveling around Asia at the same time. This normally wouldn’t be a problem, as I travel a lot, but I didn’t have good systems in place or a good team that could take care of things while I was gone.
I couldn’t enjoy my trip because I was constantly worried about work and my company wasn’t growing because I wasn’t focused on it. Looking back at this, I should have created great systems and hired one or two great employees, train them for a while and slowly transition out of the company.
I tried to do two things at once and didn’t do either one well.
Do you struggle with staying focused, too? Would you mind sharing how you deal with it?

[bardy]

Yes you are very right in this concern as I have also faces many situation like this which becomes hurdel for me. So I have concluded two solution for this:
1. First of all accept mistakes, realise it and start learning from it. As when you put steps in this world of success at that time you are totally unaware of all such circumstances and due to this you will do all wrong and after that you realise it so now accept it and learn from it and make a promise that this particular mistake will never repeated again.
This is one way to solve this problem as and when you get going solving it you mind get focused after sometime of experience.
2. If you don't want to make happen what I have said in 1 point then- Before starting any new thing thing, think on 100 times if required that is this my first priority and will it going to help me in my way to success and if "Yes" then upto what extent. And get second alternative in which you will get more benefit.

So Moral of the story is- To stay focused means understanding our priorities first and work accordingly.

[EliseBlanchett]

Yeap, that is important in case of getting success in this business. Have to know the main facts that you want to achieve and the main root that must be followed. other then this if we focus on minor things then it is not possible to get desired results by hard workings.

[marknel]

I think fear of failure is important in helping you to focus towards your goal.If the task is crucial ,you will remain focused and work in that direction.