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The #1 Reason Creative People Fail
and how to make sure its not you.
Hey Owners,
The number one reason that I see artists go nowhere, is that they don’t focus.
It’s very easy for them to get excited about a goal.
But also very easy for them to get excited about another one.
I’m not really talking about being lazy.
There’s plenty of hard working artists that always seem to be struggling in some way with making an income.
How often do you switch projects?
How often do you forget what you were focusing on last week?
See when you constantly change focus a few things happen.
You are often seen not keeping your word.
You miss a lot of opportunity due to a lack of follow through.
It’s hard to be organized juggling so many projects at once.
You get side tracked easy.
You have just an overall lack of results.
There are many more things that result from lack of focus that I have not mentioned.
These are only the things that I KNOW from experiencing them.
From seeing it in myself or people around me.
I don’t write about things I only know ABOUT.
So What Can Be Done?
You have to start by really feeling into what are the SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT projects/focus points in each individual aspect or facet of your life are.
Romantic Relationships.
Friend Relationships.
Work/Money.
Play/Hobby.
Fitness.
Diet.
You might be thinking it’s impossible to cut down to one focus.
You don’t have to have just one forever.
Just until your muscle for focus strengthens.
Focus is a muscle and you can read more on that here
Naturally as you start to get major momentum with each focus, you can start adding one more thing at a time into your daily circle of focus points.
The Important thing to think about here is:
What are my lowest hanging fruits?
What are the things that I can do that require the lowest amount of:
Time
Money
Energy
That will give me the highest return on my investment of energy.
If you focus on these, get the ball rolling strong, THEN add one thing in ONE of the areas of your life, then you will be so dialed in everyday you will be crushing your personal records weekly or even daily.
Of course there are phases of life where life circumstances are holding you from doing what I have talked about here.
All I am talking about is what I know to be the ideal based on my own life.
This process is a journey.
Don’t worry about tracking how long its taking to feel like you have a good groove on showing up effortlessly everyday.
The goal is to just follow through on what you said you would do to accomplish what you want.
Even if you don’t know what to do when you show up and start focusing.
Just do it, and since your creating space for ideas on that to come, they will come when your ready to listen.
This really sets people apart.
The people who live as full time artists or entrepreneurs doing whatever they love everyday.
Choosing to give love, and receiving it back in the form of wealth, health, and happiness.
You can start today.
Start by writing down all the things in your life.
Write it somewhere you can remember with blue ink on white paper.
Then make columns for all the areas of your life that currently have focus from you for some project or activity.
Then start firing.
Eliminate anything that is not giving you a positive return on your investment of energy compared to other things.
I even do this with people in my life.
We can talk more on that later.
One by one, think and feel into each item you have on your lists and determine if its serving you based on what you're putting into it.
And really try to get each area down to one thing.
2 at the very maximum.
2 is still too much to be wildly successful in that area but you can do well.
After that, all that is required is showing up daily and doing what it takes to move the needle on those chosen things.
Create plans.
Do the hard thinking.
Make a list and start dialing.
Know the things your going to do.
Make a list of things you will need to get,
And things you will need to get rid of.
Success is subtractive.
It’s about adding a few really good things into your life, then cutting out anything else that does not support your goals.
I know that if you start here, that you will be able to start feeling really good about the direction you are headed in your life.
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