Steps to Become a Millionaire; Step 2 - Set Your Focus

Continuing in our series, Steps to Become a Millionaire, today we look at focus. Step 1 in the process was to Tune Up Your Millionaire Mindset. Now that you are thinking straight, you also need to see clearly. Read on as we take you through the four steps to fixing your focus.

Your alarm goes off at six am, far too early, but you jump out of bed, already feeling the pressure of the day. You rush to fit in some breakfast as you get the kids' lunches ready and usher them out the door after a quick breakfast, already late for the bus. You pause momentarily to pray that they don't miss it because you don't have time to drive them to school before your eight-thirty meeting.

Traffic against you, your heart rate increases as you think about explaining to your boss why you are tardy for his all-important "re-alignment" meeting. You rush into the office and grab a quick cup of luke-warm coffee, no time to make a new pot. The meeting is fast-paced, and before you really have time to object you have three more projects with looming deadlines. A quick lunch in the building's cafeteria, and then to your desk where you juggle e-mail, catch up on the 3 projects already underway, handle a quick crisis with one of your field crews, and then dial in for your afternoon conference call.

You can't believe it is already four-thirty when one of your co-workers stops by your cubicle to chat about his ex-girlfriend's cousin's party last weekend, and you try not to offend but you don't have time for idle chatter. Your Blackberry is going off furiously as you dash for the car, hoping to have a few minutes to stop at the store before picking the kids up from their after-school activities so there will be something for dinner tonight.

The evening meal is a free-for-all and somehow you are left with the dish duty. You make time to help the kids with their homework, then try to catch up on some personal connections and a little online research for the next den meeting, and then you crash into bed, already worried about how to make it through tomorrow.

This may not be your exact story, but can you relate? If not, maybe you already have this step perfected. But if this resonated with you, read on, what you learn here today can make or break your ability to be successful and achieve your millionaire dreams.

Our problem today is distractions. You see, it is easy to allow yourself to get distracted amid the sea of responsibility that each of us shoulders. And some shoulder more than others! So how do you maintain a focus in this age of instant technology and information overload? How do you keep yourself from getting sucked into the grinder of "other people's priorities" and maintain a healthy balance in life?

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