The Ultimate Focus Strategy: How to Set the Right Goals, Develop Powerful Focus, Stick to the Process, and Achieve Success

by Martin Meadows

Discover 4 Steps to Permanently Eliminate Distractions and Focus on Your Goals in the Long-Term How do you feel about investing years of your life into achieving an important goal – your time, energy, money, blood, sweat, and tears – only to give up and throw it all away? If you constantly switch your attention from one thing to another, dabble in multiple projects, and give up on your goals whenever things get hard, you'll eventually fail – absolutely guaranteed! Wouldn't it be life-changing to finally be able to focus on your most important goals, work on them diligently on a daily basis, and make them a reality? Fortunately, even if you've been engaging in such unproductive behaviors ever since you can remember, you can escape this vicious cycle. Written by bestselling author Martin Meadows, The Ultimate Focus How to Set the Right Goals, Develop Powerful Focus, Stick to the Process, and Achieve Success uncovers a powerful strategy that helped him overcome extreme shyness, get in shape in less than twelve months after years of negligence, launch a successful business after six years of failures, release several bestsellers, learn two foreign languages, dramatically reduce his fear of heights, and travel to exotic destinations. Here's just a taste of what you'll learn from the - How to make smart sacrifices to achieve your goals. Sacrifice is a must, but it doesn't mean you have to throw your life out of balance. - How to set the right goals, transform them into real-world actions and motivate yourself to get started. Discover when and how to start working on your goals. - Learn how to overcome the common fears and problems of getting started, such as balancing several goals at once, overcoming a fear of failure and a fear of success (it's more common than you think, and it might be one of the reasons why you struggle). - Discover a 4-step process that shows you how to develop deep focus on a single path. This is how ordinary people achieve extraordinary goals. - 7 powerful ways to overcome everyday distractions. Find out how to become focused, including how to recognize and avoid laziness triggers. - How to focus and take action when you're not motivated. A lack of motivation doesn't automatically mean you're destined to fail. Learn how to overcome this common problem and keep trucking! - How to prioritize what to do and manage your to-do list. You'll be surprised to hear such outrageous advice in a self-help work, but you'll surely find yourself nodding as you read it. - 3 key areas of life you have to change to get fascinated with your goal. Developing a positive obsession about your objectives can make the difference between success and failure. - 5 powerful tips to stick to your resolutions despite hurdles and challenges, develop more patience, and bounce back after a failure. Learn how to persist, even in those challenging times when all you want to do is give up. - 3 golden rules for sustainable progress. Learn how to make the Ultimate Focus Strategy a part of your everyday life and achieve consistent results. - How to maintain success when you reach it. Discover the final lesson you absolutely need to heed, to stay successful for the rest of your life.

Genres: Personal Development, Productivity, Self Help, Nonfiction

247 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 27, 2017

About the author

Martin Meadows is the pen name of an author who has dedicated his life to personal growth. He constantly reinvents himself by making drastic changes in his life. Over the years, he has: regularly fasted for over 40 hours, taught himself two foreign languages, lost over 30 pounds in 12 weeks, ran several businesses in various industries, took ice-cold showers and baths, lived on a small tropical island in a foreign country for several months, and wrote 400-page long novel's worth of short stories in one month.

Yet, self-torture is not his passion. Martin likes to test his boundaries to discover how far his comfort zone goes. His findings (based both on his personal experience and scientific studies) help him improve his life. If you're interested in pushing your limits and learning how to become the best version of yourself, you'll love Martin's works.

Reviews

[Nkechi Ajogwu · Rating 4 out of 5]

48 down, 252 to go.

Genre - Self Help

The Ultimate Focus Strategy
It teaches how to set the right goals, and back them with actions, overcome fear of failure and success, stop the vicious cycle of unproductivity and maintain success when it is achieved.

Lessons:
1. No matter how good you are at something, you can always become better at it.
2. Ensure you always win, even if the win is so tiny that others can only see it with a microscope.
3. People are often unconsciously afraid of success, which makes them not only hesitate to start, but also to sabotage their efforts.
4. Whenever you feel tempted to change things before you achieve your goal,
remind yourself about your priorities.
5. You need an established routine that makes you function at your best, and allows you to work with few distractions.
6. Visualization works best when you imagine the actions you take to improve your performance, not the future reward.
7. If you want to achieve success, you need to be able to adapt and make all
the necessary changes, even if they’re uncomfortable at first.
8. Successful people hang around successful people. Don’t apologize for isolating yourself from individuals who don’t help you grow.
9. What matters is not failure, but whether you resume working on your goal after experiencing it.
10. Boring is good if it leads to sustainability.

[Yoric · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like reading this book because I can relate to the author. We have similarities, like shyness, burning desire to become independent.
So much so that I'd like to consider the same business option he chose, a self-publishing company. Maybe not exactly the same, but something with writing. This starts with writing every day a bunch of words, even when we don't feel like it.

"When I was in the early stages of building my self-publishing business, I wasn’t entertained all of the time. I didn’t always enjoy writing thousands upon thousands of words every single week. Despite the fact that I enjoy putting my thoughts on paper, I wasn’t always excited by the prospect of writing yet another page, yet another chapter, yet another book. But whether I was excited or not was irrelevant. What was important was my system of writing every single day and putting out books on a regular schedule."

[Avi · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is a short read, but interspersed with gems as these:

"This is imperative; if you don’t think of your goal as a necessity in your life and an absolute must, you won’t achieve it."

"You must never sacrifice essential health-related and relationships-related goals. Once lost, health and relationships can be hard or impossible to regain."

"You don’t get a half of a financial reward for a half-finished project — you get a big fat zero. Successful entrepreneurs become successful because they become experts about their products, services, niche or industry and dig as deep as necessary to find the gold they’re looking for. And most importantly — they finish what they start."

"Growth happens outside my comfort zone. Security leads to mediocrity."

"Abundance is all around me. Scarcity is the mindset of the poor."

[Matt McMahon · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Ultimate Focus Strategy: How to Set the Right Goals, Develop Powerful Focus, Stick to the Process, and Achieve Success was a solid read. Martin Meadows uses his previous productivity writing to emphasize the importance in focus and how to attain focus in your everyday life. This strategy is designed to be used everyday with all aspects of your life.

Focus mixed with understanding what distracts you are important factors to consider and are constantly reiterated throughout. Meadows uses many examples, from his experiences and from his previously written books. This helps you reinforce the ideas of the book by using real world examples.

Overall, great book to read and is a nice view of how productivity can be attained with enough though, attention and of course, focus.

Cross Posted on Amazon.

[Makara Nou · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you have read Martin Meadows' books before, you will find this one lengthy. It is not as empowering as his previous works. Some ideas are already presented, and it feels repetition. Moreover, it is about his struggle and experience that help him succeed. It is not applicable to me. But I am glad that he gives us a diagnostic chapter to let us see if the book is a good fit. I myself found it was not for me, but I tried to struggle with it.

[Paul Bard · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sustainable change thinks of stressors as a source of meaning and energy by accounting for being able to do the new action daily for years

Rest and readjustment periods recharge and give insight into the season of life, allowing tiny progress

Sacrifice your wants and indulgences not your needs fir your goals.

A few good ideas

[Suresh Vijendran · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well detailed book.
This book talks about the ways and systems that we need to follow that would endure us in the long run. Apart from sustaining, our behaviours for our success, it also guides on what need to do when we run out of steam.

[Omkar Galgalikar · Rating 5 out of 5]

yaaa excellent book

[Elruin Elmsroot · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good book with lots of good advices.
But, the main theme of this book is: you can only achieve one goal at a lifetime.
Which isn’t something you want to do realistically with your life.....!

[Joel Mizinga · Rating 5 out of 5]

The most practical self help book I have read, I believe implementing this would change the life of common Joe like me✊💥

[Michael · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good prompt to sacrifice the wants, rather than the needs.

[Rand Anderson]

Solid - wrote a review online at amazon