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# Chapter 179

/The successful man is the average man, focused." ~ Anonymous/

Focus is the key to so much in life. Or you can think of it as attention. The entire western world is monetizing around your attention and they will do anything to capture it and hold it. They have discovered that your attention or focus is the entrance into your wallet. So there are thousands of engineers out there working to keep you on FaceBook, Twitter, Instagram, etc etc as much as possible, not so that you can stay in touch with friends and relatives far away, but so that you and I will buy their products, and we evidently do. I would highly recommend boxing those activities in to small segments of the day and never letting them out of there. Put them on a timer and keep the leash tight, otherwise you will frivolously spend all your focus on the most unimportant things and get very few change-the-world actions completed.

I am not looking for star talent in my business and friends, I am looking for average people with a high focus discipline. In fact the more normal “average” they are, the sharper their focus discipline will be generally, because us average folks have to compensate. I have lots of tenacity but I have to work for focus. More and more I am heading to the basement to work when I need my highest focus, because that removes even the visual stimulus of looking out the window next to my desk. This is where success lies, in deep work done with razor sharp focus.

What are you focused on?