How Do I Stay Focused When I Get Distracted?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2014

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Stuart asks about something I know we all experience: he’s on a roll, being productive, and then something pulls his attention away. How can he get his focus back? Do you have a question about cultivating a work mindset? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Leave a review for the show on iTunes: http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/review-askpat See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:04.0	AskPat.com
0:06.6	dot com.
0:11.0	Hey, hey, what up everybody?
0:12.2	This is Pat Flynn, and welcome to episode 168 of Ask Pat.
0:15.9	Thank you so much for joining me.
0:17.2	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:21.1	If you have a question, you'd like potentially feature it here on the show. Just head on over to
0:23.9	Askpat.com and you could get a t-shirt out of it, just like Stewart did for today's question. So let's
0:29.3	get right into today's question from Stewart.
0:32.3	Hey, Pat. This is Stuart from the e-commerce and small business guide. The other day, I started the day with some great hopes of achieving the goals that I'd
0:43.0	set for myself.
0:44.6	And unfortunately, I was interrupted by a couple of small issues that took me away from my
0:49.4	program.
0:50.4	But when I came back, I found that I just couldn't quite get back into the swing of things.
0:54.7	I started on my to-do list, but nothing that I did ever got finished because little problems arose.
1:01.3	I became frustrated and then rather angry with myself for not being able to focus on what I was doing.
1:08.3	So my question to you is, what do you do when you're faced with situations like
1:12.8	that? How do you get back on track and kick all the goals that you want to kick that day?
1:19.1	Thanks for giving the chance to ask the question.
1:23.6	Stuart, thank you so much for the question. This is a very, very, very, very common problem.
1:28.7	I've experienced it many times before, and I still do.
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