Martin Meadows - Self-Disciplined Producer: Develop a Powerful Work Ethic, Improve Your Focus, and Produce Better Results

Self-Disciplined

Producer

Develop a Powerful Work Ethic,

Improve Your Focus, and Produce Better Results

By Martin Meadows

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Prologue

T he evolution of modern technology has led to the reduction in our ability to focus. Distractions rule our everyday lives. What used to be a normal abilitydiligent, disciplined workis now a superpower.

For many, not checking their social media profiles for the fiftieth time during the day is impossible. When browsing the Internet, most have dozens of tabs open, reading five articles at once, watching a video and responding to a message from a friend. Perhaps you are reading this book while eating lunch, or on hold for a call or avoiding the report you must finish today.

So many people constantly launch new projects that sidetrack them instead of focusing on one thing and doing it well. They constantly need new stimuli because having or doing the same thing is boring to them.

Self-discipline and good old work ethic are no longer attractive values. The need for variety and entertainment are what now dictate a persons behaviorat the expense of their productivity and ultimately, success in life.

Being unable to focus amid all the distraction makes consistency difficult. Building self-control, improving your productivity and delivering results day in and day out can be accomplished with a few minor adjustments. Self-Disciplined Producer will help you achieve success by teaching you how to make those changes.

As an author and entrepreneur, my income depends on my ability to focus. Theres nobody standing by me, telling me to work. I have to implement strategic exercises and discipline myself or my business wont grow.

Distractions once ruled my life: instead of committing to a single business, I kept losing focus and moving from one shiny object to another. Needless to say, I wasnt capable of producing the results I was so desperately after.

Then a shift happened.

Over the last two and a half years, I released sixteen books, created four video courses with over 25,000 enrolled students in total, translated my books into ten languages, and created a YouTube channel with over 20,000 subscribers. As a result, I became a bestselling author in a wildly competitive personal development genre.

None of this would have been possible without consistent focus which I finally developed when I made a conscious decision to permanently improve my productivity. In this book, we will go step by step through the habits and strategies I discovered to help me deliver results, so you can see them in your own life.

I understand that youre a busy person with little time you can dedicate to reading. For this reason, this booklike my other titlesis brief and gets to the point as quickly as possible. Each chapter starts with the introduction of an enemy of focus and then offers you tips, exercises, and habits you can implement to overcome it.

Whenever I talk about work or being a producer , I talk about pursuing productive endeavors of all kindworking on your business, studying, learning a new skill, working for a charity, or performing any other value-producing task. Consequently, this book applies to all types of employment, professions and even your personal life.

By looking at five enemies of focus, including how they affect us and why we are susceptible, you can start making personal changes towards becoming a self-disciplined producer. This is why, throughout the book, for each challenge, there are multiple exercises or techniques that you can immediately implement in your own life to improve your productivity.

Eager to learn more? Lets discover the first enemy of focus at work and learn how to battle against it.

Chapter 1: This Common Habit Ruins It All

W hen a sudden burst of motivation hits Joe after watching an inspirational video before going to sleep, he makes a decision: the next day he will wake up at five in the morning and finally start building his dream business.

For once, the alarm clock doesnt bother Joe and he isnt tempted to hit snooze. After all, hes about to start the first day of his new, disciplined life. After a quick shower, with a cup of coffee on his desk, he gets to work. When searching for an idea for a domain name for his new business, he sees an ad about a new technology making thousands of people around the world rich. Ill take a quick look, he decides and clicks on the ad.

Sixty minutes later, he realizes that he was supposed to buy a domain name. Instead, he has just wasted an hour jumping from one website to another. With his attention back on the important task, he resumes work.

But wait, Kim has just texted him that shes free this evening. Everyone and everything can wait while Joe works on his business, but this doesnt apply to Kim. Thirty minutes later, having exchanged fifty or so messages with Kim, Joe feels hungry and heads to the kitchen to grab something to eat. Hell find a perfect domain name once his stomach stops growling.

Having satisfied his hunger, Joe is back to researching domain names. But look at this fascinating articlethey say that an offline business can be more lucrative than a digital one. Yet again, Joe is sucked into an endless cycle of distractions: article by article, text by text, message by message, his control over his workday is slipping away.