I am sure that your experience, as a business or sales professional, is no different to that of all the people I encounter daily. There is so much distraction going on all around them, that they are constantly distracted by all the external noise going on around them. You are bombarded with noise in the form of billboard advertising, a barrage of emails and text messages, a constantly ringing mobile phone, constant noise on the radio, as you commute, people vying for your time and attention etc. This constant noise and the extreme demands on your time, where you are expected to deliver all day every day, make it very difficult to remain focused

1. Does your Attitude Determine your Altitude?
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I am sure that your experience, as a business or sales professional, is no different to that of all the people I
encounter daily. There is so much distraction going on all around them, that they are constantly distracted by all the
external noise going on around them. You are bombarded with noise in the form of billboard advertising, a barrage
of emails and text messages, a constantly ringing mobile phone, constant noise on the radio, as you commute,
people vying for your time and attention etc. This constant noise and the extreme demands on your time, where you
are expected to deliver all day every day, make it very difficult to remain focused.
Stop allowing Distractions to control your Actions
The most dangerous and insidious thing anyone can do, is allow distractions to control their daily actions. Instead of
focusing on carrying out their daily priority activities, in an organised, scheduled and planned fashion. They allow
distraction to dictate how their day unfolds. Losing control of your most value possession, namely your time, is most
certainly a recipe for disaster and is the reason most people get so little done every day, yet they still feel
overwhelmed and overworked. They literally get lost in a coma of distraction.
Wrestle Back Control – Become Productive
Instead of focusing, prioritising and getting the most important things done first every day, they spin their wheels,
allowing everyone around them to dictate their actions. They effectively surrender control to distraction, which sees
them wrapped up in a cycle of busyness, instead of effectiveness. As you know being busy and being productive
are on opposite sides of the spectrum. Being busy is easy and feels comfortable in the moment, but delivers very
little in terms of results. Whereas being productive requires self-discipline, planning, scheduling and willpower, until it
becomes your new success habit, which will feel uncomfortable in the moment, but will deliver buckets of meaning
and fulfilment in the end.
Tips to become productive
Identify the behaviours or activities you need to carry out daily to achieve the success you desire.
Schedule time daily to carry out these activities. Work very hard to ensure that you stick to this schedule daily.
Whatever gets scheduled gets done. When you schedule time to do those important things daily. Something
amazing happens. You actually take those goal specific actions daily and over time the magic happens and
you will achieve all those goals and dreams, which have eluded you for so long. Success is simple, all that is

2. needed is for you to utilise your available time effectively today and then to do the same tomorrow and every
day, which follows after that.
You are the most energised first thing in the morning. Schedule the most important tasks for completion at this
time to utilise your most energised, resourceful and inspired time of the day to carry out your most important,
priority tasks.
Measure your performance daily. Are you sticking to your commitments and schedule and actually getting all
your commitments done daily?
Keep making incremental improvements to your daily planning and scheduling until you are satisfied with your
productivity.
Never, ever, ever, ever open your emails first thing in the morning. This is the most insidious thief of your day.
As soon as you open your emails, you effectively hand control of your day over to everyone else. Their
needs and priorities immediately take precedence over your own. Schedule time for handling emails, only
once you have completed all those crucial priority or goal specific activities, which are most important to you
and your future success, every day.
Change your attitude
If you want your world to change, simply change the way you look at it. Change your attitude from one where you feel
overwhelmed and you are trapped in a place of busyness, which makes you believe that you “Can’t do it”. Instead
start to ask better quality questions, which will help you to shift your attitude to a more positive place, where you
believe that you “CAN DO IT”. The difference between “CAN” and “CAN”T” is only one letter, namely the letter “T”.
That “T” stands for using your available “TIME” more productively. As soon as you shift away from overwhelm and
busyness to focus and productivity, you “CAN” and will achieve the greatness you deserve.
Andrew Horton
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