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It's important for you, as a new affiliate marketer, to understand what focus is, what it means for your affiliate marketing business, and how to achieve it. In the following sections, we give you tips on how to strengthen your ability to focus. Flip to Article 3 for an introduction to the importance of focus as an affiliate marketer (and how a lack of focus is a pitfall).
All of us are living busy lives. Our 24-hour day is completely filled -- there are usually no empty time slots. That's because we are constantly making decisions about what is important to us and what we choose to fill our lives with.
You need to start consciously making decisions about what is and isn't important in your life. What is and (isn't) worth spending your life's currency on?
If you're not careful, all the should-do's, like answering your overflowing emails every day, will take up a big chunk of your time and push out the creative work you need to do to get your affiliate marketing business going. When you spend your day reading and responding to emails or being knocked off course by constant calls for your attention from notifications, chimes, bings, and bongs on your computer and smartphone, you are meeting others' priorities and not your own.
Start by making a list of what is important for you to accomplish in your affiliate marketing business. Then make a list of things that aren't important in your life. Many of our decisions about how we spend our lives are automatic. Make a list of things that don't add value to your life and that you want to eliminate. Just by making a list, you may become aware of what the time wasters are in your life. Keep a journal or a calendar of how you spend your day. You'll find it illuminating. |
