How to Focus?
Ahmed Raza
Chief Data Cartographer: Mapping the path to Data-Driven decision making.
“Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.” (Zig Ziglar)
The formula of getting yourself satisfied is achieving certain goals. This is how I made a small community so everyone can join me in this Tech Campaign and help me in building our society.
Just getting to the point, we live for a reason, we care for a reason and we think for a reason. And the reason is always a goal, and those are the things which exist only in the brains of goal-oriented people. If you haven't decided or planned for a goal based life then you are making unnecessary ins and outs of 3rd form of matter from your nostrils.
The question resembles from achieving goal but focus is necessary. Here is the tip designed by myself which I follow to complete or achieve any task/goal in my life. Look at this triangle of focusing:
For example, your father has a Shoe Shop. Now how will you get a focus in boosting up your father's business? Lets discuss in detail:
Time: You have a passion of getting on the top of shoe market and become the best shoe seller in the town. You are committed to your plans and everything is entered into the To Do list. But you are not giving proper time to the commitments and not visiting shop, neither you have time for research and market analysis. You will lose your focus and won't get your goal achieved easily.
Passion: Now you are giving time to your father's shop, you are sitting in-front of laptop and making research that whats going on in the market as per you father's friend instructions. And, you are making such commitments with your father regarding the business strategies as per discussed with your father's friend during the research. But what is missing here? The Passion, yes you are only doing this for the sake of satisfying your dad by keeping yourself in-front of him as a helping hand but your goals are different. You won't focus on what is actually required to be achieved.
Commitment: Here is the conclusion is triangle now. You are passionate about your business, you want to include leather belts and other leather made products by extending your shoe business and you are giving more and more time in what is actually not required. I mean here that you haven't done your paper work, you don't know how things will run, you are not creating any milestones and probably you are missing your commitments here with yourself and with your
- Give at least 01 hour daily to your contributions so it becomes 30 hours of learning in a month. Which is fair enough to achieve your goals in learning. For example if you are going to complete any book then give it 1 hour daily and you will get it done in your desired timelines very efficiently.
- Don't open unnecessary tabs in your browser and don't expand your research. Be on what have your planned in your To Do list of a year. Like if you have planned to learn Python for Data Science then don't rush into R Programming or any new certification which might attracts you. Tell your browser that you will be researching your content.
- Don't share with anyone what are you planning to achieve until you achieve. Nobody gives a s**t of your interest and doesn't hold a passion as same as yours. Like our fingerprints, we have other things unique in us like passion and creativity. These are the terms only, but this is how you deliver and perceive things according to your will and directions.
- Remain Low-Profiled person (Technically Only) 'You are zero and doesn't know anything about technology'. This doesn't mean to quit socializing, or subscribing tech hubs, just try to learn from people.
- Be a part of discussions and participate in tech forums, but listen more and talk less. Don't disclose your current track until you complete it. Because people learn from your success not from your failures, its you who learn from your own failures. So there might be number of failures you may face during your progress. So be patient and let the things complete and successful.