You're listening to The Game Changer Life with Dave Anderson, the show about how to thrive, take charge of your mindset, and be unstoppable in business and all

aspects of your life. This is the Game Change Your Life podcast with Dave Anderson.

Welcome to the Game Change Your Life. I'm Dave Anderson. It's time for our Friday.

Two-minute warning edition posted on Fridays to give you, or whoever else you want to share it with,

something to think about, watch for, or to do to finish your week strong and maximize, get the most out of your weekend.

I will also include an occasional red zone rant, not today. My topic today is defeating distractions.

You look in the dictionary, a distraction is defined as thus, a thing

that prevents someone from giving full attention to something else. Now, a distraction can be a good

thing if that something else is an unproductive person or activity, because then maybe that

distraction will get you back on track to what matters most. However, distractions can be devastating when they take you away from essential things,

essential disciplines, things like disciplines that improve your mindset, your health,

or your relationships every day, disciplines that create high-impact focus every day on the

activities that mean the most, those high-impact max-ax activities that are most

predictive of creating the desired outcome that you're after. Or focusing on what you can control.

They take you away from that because you get caught up with what you can't control. Or you start

to focus on what someone else is doing or getting or saying, and that becomes a distraction

that makes you less effective. Or garbage media stories. Oh, they drain your energy. They take you out of your zone when you obsess over them, discuss them, rehearse them. All these little distractions during a day add up. During a lifetime? It's a really big deal. I mean, you can turn your head for a minute. It can become an hour. It can become a day. It can become a week.

It can become your life.

This stuff matters. You have to defeat distractions. And some of the penalties. I mean, it takes more energy and effort to get the job done because you were distracted while you were doing it. Or to get to the point. So now you've wasted everybody's time. Or you put more hours in trying to get done what you could have got done if you were focused on the things that mattered most in the first place. Or you start too many things and you finish too few.

You major in minor things.

You confuse activity with accomplishment, speed for direction and motion for progress.

Need I go on?

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