07 – Keep Your Focus

When American swimmer Michael Phelps competed (and won) in the Olympics, he was truly focused on the task at hand. An interesting note to the swim competition is that Phelps’s closest competitor was caught in a picture turning his head and focusing his attention on Phelps during the swim rather than on what he had to do to beat him.

Phelps’s competitor lost focus because he was more interested in how Phelps was doing. Losing focus on your ultimate goals and plans for success is a sure way to lose the momentum you’ve built and slip back into failure mode.

Stay True to Your Plan

Attracting wealth is best accomplished by focusing your attention on a plan that you’ve formulated and set goals for and that you know will work when carried out systematically.

You’ve seen what happens to those who seem to concentrate on complaints. They use Facebook, blogs or other social media means to complain about real or imagined obstacles that have kept them from achieving success.

Nothing gets done when you’re in the mode of complaining and feeling sorry for yourself. Wealth can only happen when your mental energy is focused on your plan for success and how you’ll achieve it.

Get Rid of Distractions

If you have trouble focusing, try to figure out where the problem lies. Do you have many interruptions when trying to work or tend to check emails or Facebook posts too often? Take a measured look at why you may have trouble focusing on getting work done and then do something about it.

When it comes to your work, your time and mental energy should be spent on attracting wealth. That means the negative thoughts of failure – either imagined or those from the past – must be eradicated from your thought process.

It may take some practice to focus on cultivating an abundant money mindset, but the payoff will be the success you’ll realize when everything comes together and becomes a reality.