In this episode, I discuss how you can cut through distractions every day using a simple technique that is used by pilots and navigators all over the world.
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I read an article that claimed that in the last two decades, our attention
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span has dropped to that of a goldfish, just eight and a half seconds.
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That's what our attention span is now.
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Could that be why we feel so distracted and have a hard time achieving our goals?
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In this episode, I'll share a powerful strategy to reach your goals that
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don't require superhuman focus.
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I'm Amin Ahmed, and welcome to be.
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Well, do.
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Distraction is something that we all face the invention of smartphones.
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Definitely didn't help that out.
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Did you note that an average user picks up their phone 1500 times
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in a week, 1,500 times in a week?
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That's almost unbelievable.
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However, it's actually not that surprising as we have so much stimulation around
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us, our smartphones being the obvious, but we also have ads on the street,
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Amazon packages at the door, kids on summer holidays, and the list goes on.
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It's natural to get distracted, but how much is too much, imagine
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that you're traveling from, let's say Vancouver to Sydney, Australia.
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By a plane, you need to follow a lighthouse or a marker.
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The pilot will set the navigation and they'll follow pretty much a straight
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path going from one to the other.
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Every time there's a little bit of wind the airplane, maybe
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veers off track a little bit.
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The pilot will course correct.
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And get back on track.
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And every time you course correct, you learn a little bit about what the wind
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speed was that took you off track, and then you adjust and you compensate.
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Now, if you keep learning and you keep adjusting, you'll eventually get to your
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destination with maybe a little bit of.
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Now imagine if you didn't course correct.
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And you got off track over and over and over again, eventually you're not
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even headed in the right direction.
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You're gonna end up somewhere else.
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You might end up in who knows India or China instead of Australia.
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So how do you fix this?
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When ships are sailing in the sea, they often use an actual lighthouse
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as a marker to find their final destination and to know where the coast
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is, pilots and drivers use onboard GP.
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For us business owners, a vision is something that acts
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like an internal navigation.
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Creating a vivid vision, or sometimes referred to as a perfect
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picture in your ideal life.
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This will help you course correct when you veer off track, we actually designed
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a planner that can help you just do that.
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The first thing you do each morning is you write down your ideal life statement.
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This becomes like your lighthouse.
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Then during the day, if you find yourself getting distracted and you're doing
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things that weren't part of your plan or aren't going to help you get to your final
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destination, then you mentally make a note of that and you refer back to your ideal
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life statement and get back on track.
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For example, if your goal is to earn an extra a hundred thousand this year,
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and you need an extra 10 clients at $10,000, each if making connections
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and sales calls is your strategy to get your goal and you don't make calls
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today, you're going to miss your mark and you're not gonna make your goal.
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There's a wonderful book about creating your vivid vision by Cameron Harold.
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I've linked to the book in the show notes, and I definitely recommend you
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read it because it gives you a great framework for creating your vivid.
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And as I mentioned, our planner is also another way every single day to
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stay on track and to make sure that you're working towards your goal.
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If you'd like to get a digital copy of our be well, do well daily
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planner head over to be well do well.fm/daily hyphen planner.
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The link is also on the show notes.
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So just as a recap, having a lighthouse vision, a vivid vision or an ideal
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life statement is something that will help you cut through this distraction.
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If you find yourself constantly getting distracted might be by your
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phone or just by things around you.
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I think having a framework, a vision and a planner is going to help you immensely.
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I hope this was helpful tomorrow.
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We're gonna discuss something really interesting.
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And that is the secret to living beyond 100 years old.
