Episode 228: 10 Ways to Cut Internet Distractions so You Can Focus on What Really Matters (FS228)

The Fizzle Show

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Freelancing, Marketing, Small Business

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 15 August 2017

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

As an independent entrepreneur, your business lives or dies on the progress you make week in, week out. Let’s talk about some EFFECTIVE ways to stay focused on things that matter.

Avoiding distractions is utterly essential to your success, but that little device in your pocket…

yea, that one…

the one with the screen and the apps and the notifications…

that thing is hungry, and all it eats is YOUR ATTENTION.

When you’re scrolling through a Facebook feed or half-a-dozen videos deep into an unanticipated YouTube binge, do you know what’s happening?

Well, I’ll tell you what’s NOT happening: your business ain’t growing and your projects AREN’T getting done.

So, here’s the deal…

… we’re not recommending a puritanical approach to business where modern technology is abandoned. The internet is undeniably powerful for building massively successful online businesses, included our own.

But we must make sure we are using the tool, not the other way around.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Fizzle Show.
0:08.6	All right.
0:11.6	This is the Fizzle Show, ladies and gentlemen, where we talk every week about indie entrepreneurship and things that are interesting to indie entrepreneurs.
0:21.1	Independent business folks.
0:23.2	These can be creative people.
0:25.2	You might be a designer or a developer of some kind.
0:29.2	You might be an entrepreneur.
0:31.1	You might be selling jam that you make at the farmer's market and figuring out how to sell more of it.
0:35.8	You might be figuring out what your next digital product is going to be.
0:38.3	You might be just dreaming about not working for a boss.
0:42.1	That's what we do here at Fizzle.
0:43.8	We call it Fizzle because most businesses can fizzle out.
0:48.8	In some ways, one of the biggest questions that you can ask yourself is who are you when it starts to fizzle?
0:56.9	How can you keep your energy and momentum going?
1:01.7	Even when all around you, things are not showing up the way that you want it to do.
1:06.6	Because that can be a lot of what the experience of entrepreneurship is like,
1:10.7	is dealing with self-doubt and all of that kind of what the experience of entrepreneurship is like, is dealing with
1:11.4	self-doubt and all of that kind of stuff. And to me personally, and to us at the Fizzle show,
1:16.8	that is where some of the biggest work is, as well as, you know, growing your traffic,
1:21.9	growing your email list, growing your revenue, getting products out there that people are
1:25.6	actually going to buy. So that's what we're into here at the Fizzle show.
1:31.2	I am Chase Warman Reeves.
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