Losing focus

I killed time again this morning.  Not because I had nothing to do, and not completely because I was procrastinating.  I killed time because I didn’t have the focus required to do what I wanted to do.  Actually, I had no focus because I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do.  I have some client tasks: reports, accounts, websites; and some personal tasks: my blog, my website redesign, my photos, but I just didn’t have a goal set out for the day.

Yesterday I nailed it.  I thought of what I wanted to accomplish.  I created a list of things I wanted to get done. And I completed my list.  No excuses.  No delays.  I kissed the frog and sucked it up.  Which brings me to my key thought.  How often do we go through life, with no thought.  How often do we wonder where the day went and what did we actually do?  In starting my own consulting business, I’ve realized I have put a lot of time in autodrive.  Now I can’t do that as much.  I need to remain focused.  I need to have a plan.  And I need to stay on point.  I plan and goal set like crazy.  I write it down, I blog about it but then after some time I forget about it.  Once I even wrote the goals on my mirrors so I would see them every day. Eventually I stopped seeing them.

Okay I’m a little all over the place today in this post.  I apologize.  I’m thinking out loud and I’m not looking for perfection otherwise this never gets published.  The primary goal of this post is more for me than for you.  It’s to help me refocus and again, become aware of me in this space, in this time and doing something conscience about it.

How do you stay focused?