How To Stay Focused When You Get Bored Working On Your Goals (TPS272)

Do you get easily bored with your goals after a while? Do you get easily distracted even though you know you should be focusing on your goals? Then this episode is for you. I’ll share 5 tips with you to help you stay focused when you get bored working on your goals. This episode is going to be a solo episode too. Brooks is somewhere vacationing in Siberia, I wish that was a joke but he’s traveling the country by train right now and Marmel is spending quality time with her family, so it’s just you and me today.

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Cheat Sheet:

Thanh's top three habit-building resources [2:22]

Why putting in the hours is the most important thing [5:10]

The power of falling in love with the process [8:50]

Why you need to stay connected with the purpose of your goals [16:30]

How to change your plan if necessary, and keep your goal the same [23:01]

What advantages a process-oriented habit has over a goal-oriented one [26:18]

Links:

Grammarly

Rhone

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