Chalene Johnson shares six strategies for managing distractions and staying focused. She discusses her own ADHD and why entrepreneurs and creatives struggle with focus, then walks through prioritization techniques and the importance of choosing one business niche instead of chasing every opportunity.
I want to deliver to you as much as I can the steps that I think are really essential if you want to take what you've learned over the course of the last three days. And for those of you who have decided, made a decision to level up, how do you make the most of that opportunity? Right, Because I'm sure. And I'd love to see, because I can see your comments now, which is really fun, and I can see you on all the screens, which is amazing for me. We feed off your energy. So thank you for, like, the smell and the nodding. I love it. And the dancing and the waving. Wendy, I see you. And the hearts. It's so awesome. But I want to know how many of you, like, your greatest fear right now is implementation. I know that Alison and her team are going to do what they promised, but will I follow through? So wave at me if you're like, yeah, that's me. My fear is like, will I get distracted? Will I lose focus? Will I stay the course? Good. I'm happy to see so many people waving because I totally relate. I am. I have always been very distracted, very unfocused. At age 45, I was diagnosed with ADHD, which was, like, really no surprise to me. But it was kind of nice to have that diagnosis and to know, like, okay, so there's not something wrong with my brain. I'm not stupid. I just am easily distracted. And what I want to share with you today is how I've been able to hone in on what I think is, like, a genius brain. So if you're easily distracted, if you're one of those creatives that, like, the problem isn't having ideas. The problem is you have too many ideas and not enough hours in the day. If that's you, I think this is really going to be helpful because I believe that if we learn some really cool strategies, anything is possible. So let me know in the comments, like, how many of you feel like you're a pretty easily distracted person. Part of the problem is you want to do too many things at once. Look at everybody's, like, pointing at themselves, like, hello, hi. That's me. Cool. Okay. So I'm going to help, I hope, today, give you some strategies that are going to really make big difference for you. But every piece of my success I really believe would not be possible if I didn't learn to manage my focus. And when I say that, I mean focusing on my priorities, focusing on one thing in my business versus the 19 things that I had popping around. Like, I've always been an entrepreneur, and from age 15 until about 29, I did usually five or six businesses at once for fear that I would pick the wrong one. Right. For fear that if I focused in on just one thing, something else would pop off. And also because I was always seeing, like, other people who were doing something amazing. And then it'd be like, oh, I should. I should. Oh, a podcast. I should do that, too. Oh, do a webinar. Okay, I should do that, too. Oh, this person's like, I would just. Everything everybody else was doing, I would think I could figure that out. And I'm gonna do it, too. And it wasn't until I really decided to. I didn't decide. I was told. That's the fact. I was told, you aren't going to do anything great if you're trying to do all the things. And I was like, now that's something I haven't heard before. And it hit hard because it's true. I was working my butt off. I mean, I was working like 80 hours a week, but it wasn't working. We were just working. So I needed to learn to focus on one thing exclusively. At that time, I had a lot of different businesses. I was trying to teach women how to start a business from home. I was trying to do seminars in hotels. I was writing an e book. I was going to school, hoping to become an attorney, working as a paralegal. I had a personal training business. You name it, I was doing all the things. And I decided in that moment to set aside the thing that I was maybe the most passionate about and just focus on one thing where I knew there was an opportunity. I saw an opportunity. I had interest in it, But I knew I had to take everything off my plate and focus on one thing. And that one thing was fitness. So I decided to set aside some of the other things which I do today. Like today, for the last 10 years, I'm happy to say that I've been able to help tens of thousands of people build a business and have the same success and certainly exceed my success by teaching people what it is I've learned about marketing and business. But up until 10 years ago, I didn't focus on marketing and business building. I only focused on fitness until I became known for that thing. One very specific niche. So what I want to share with you today is how important it is to really take so much off your plate, to stop being pulled in everybody else's direction and feeling other people's agendas and letting your notifications and your phone and just what everybody else is doing, let that pull you off.
