I read an article that claimed that in the last two decades, our attention span has dropped to that of a goldfish, just eight and a half seconds. That's what our attention span is now. Could that be why we feel so distracted and have a hard time achieving our goals? In this episode, I'll share a powerful strategy to reach your goals that don't require superhuman focus. I'm Amin Ahmed, and welcome to be. Well, do. Distraction is something that we all face the invention of smartphones.
Definitely didn't help that out. Did you note that an average user picks up their phone 1500 times in a week, 1,500 times in a week? That's almost unbelievable. However, it's actually not that surprising as we have so much stimulation around us, our smartphones being the obvious, but we also have ads on the street, Amazon packages at the door, kids on summer holidays, and the list goes on.
It's natural to get distracted, but how much is too much, imagine that you're traveling from, let's say Vancouver to Sydney, Australia. By a plane, you need to follow a lighthouse or a marker. The pilot will set the navigation and they'll follow pretty much a straight path going from one to the other. Every time there's a little bit of wind the airplane, maybe veers off track a little bit. The pilot will course correct. And get back on track.
And every time you course correct, you learn a little bit about what the wind speed was that took you off track, and then you adjust and you compensate. Now, if you keep learning and you keep adjusting, you'll eventually get to your destination with maybe a little bit of. Now imagine if you didn't course correct. And you got off track over and over and over again, eventually you're not even headed in the right direction. You're gonna end up somewhere else.
You might end up in who knows India or China instead of Australia. So how do you fix this? When ships are sailing in the sea, they often use an actual lighthouse as a marker to find their final destination and to know where the coast is, pilots and drivers use onboard GP. For us business owners, a vision is something that acts like an internal navigation. Creating a vivid vision, or sometimes referred to as a perfect picture in your ideal life.
This will help you course correct when you veer off track, we actually designed a planner that can help you just do that. The first thing you do each morning is you write down your ideal life statement. This becomes like your lighthouse.
Then during the day, if you find yourself getting distracted and you're doing things that weren't part of your plan or aren't going to help you get to your final destination, then you mentally make a note of that and you refer back to your ideal life statement and get back on track.
For example, if your goal is to earn an extra a hundred thousand this year, and you need an extra 10 clients at $10,000, each if making connections and sales calls is your strategy to get your goal and you don't make calls today, you're going to miss your mark and you're not gonna make your goal. There's a wonderful book about creating your vivid vision by Cameron Harold.
I've linked to the book in the show notes, and I definitely recommend you read it because it gives you a great framework for creating your vivid. And as I mentioned, our planner is also another way every single day to stay on track and to make sure that you're working towards your goal. If you'd like to get a digital copy of our be well, do well daily planner head over to be well do well.fm/daily hyphen planner. The link is also on the show notes.
So just as a recap, having a lighthouse vision, a vivid vision or an ideal life statement is something that will help you cut through this distraction. If you find yourself constantly getting distracted might be by your phone or just by things around you. I think having a framework, a vision and a planner is going to help you immensely. I hope this was helpful tomorrow. We're gonna discuss something really interesting. And that is the secret to living beyond 100 years old.
I hope you'll join me tomorrow. Have an awesome day. And I'll see you then.