This post was inspired by a topic Darren Hardy spoke about titled, “Name Your Five”. Did you know that as a society we have become more and more attention deficit?
Edward Hallowell is a psychiatrist, a New York Times bestselling author, a world-renowned speaker and a leading authority in the field of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or ADHD. He wrote a book called, “Deliver from Distraction”, and it talks about how doctors are realizing that millions of adults suffer from attention deficit disorder (ADD).
He agrees that our overscheduled, overworked, over-stimulated culture is conditioning us in such a way that we are becoming more and more ADD. We are creating a situation called acquired attention deficit disorder (AADD) based on how we attempt to multitask and allow ourselves to be constantly distracted in this digital culture.
We are actually re-routing our neuropathways in our brain giving us a condition many consider to be an affliction so bad that requires medication to alleviate it. As real estate investors, entrepreneurs, and achievers we are susceptible to this and we can become the victim of our own ambition and enthusiasm in trying to get it all done.
Many of us are caught up being too busy to our own detriment. We want to feel that we are highly productive so we keep ourselves occupied way too often.
We tend to feel like we are running out of time or we are just actually avoiding actual work, which in reality are the most important things needed to get done in order to reach our goals.
Some of the activities that I see most members are avoiding are calling FSBOs, doing weekly marketing, and most of all going to appointments.
If they know very well, these are the best ways to find motivated sellers and their opportunity to be one step closer to building the life they desire financially.
Now, let’s all look inside ourselves and find our five – the five things we did the last couple of days that we know we should not have done.
In addition, let’s look ahead and find the five things that we are currently committed to doing that we should get out of. Let’s identify the reoccurring tasks that are causing us to be busy at the expense of our productivity.
I promise NOT to:
1. Check my phone every time I get a notice of a new email, text, etc.
2. Jump from task to task because of lack of planning
3. Wake up late
4. Go to Facebook or other social networks during my “prime” hours or because I am bored
5. Do non-income producing activities or tasks that I can delegate for less cost to others (i.e., cleaning the house, grocery shopping, hand-writing marketing letters, etc.)
The list can go on and on. So, let’s kill that part of ourselves that allows us to be comfortable and content of just getting by.
Give birth to your new selves, the one who is committed to staying focused and clear-minded and the one who aims at maintaining a clear vision of where they are going.
Try to measure how these changes that you are making in your life are affecting you on a personal level. I know many of the things we do are not always easy, but being aware of them and having the desire to change them is already a good start.
To your success,
