Focus Weekend (Part 2)

It's day 145 of documenting 2025.

A new week approaches.
In the meantime, we're still in the weekend.
Happy Sunday, my friend ☺️

Today, we'll finish what we started in yesterday's post.
Part 2.
But first, lemme just say a few on how yesterday went.

I did a bit of crochet...
And finally finished a beanie I started months ago.
At first, I listened to Lindsey Stirling's tracks in a playlist while I crocheted.
Then I had to charge my phone....but I finished the last part in silence.

The best part was that I focused on it for 30 whole minutes.
Without the violin music.
I realized something.
The process to finishing a project one starts will always be boring.
And repetitive.
Sometimes frustrating.
But the joy one feels when the project is finally complete is priceless 💎

To be honest, there are still unfinished crochet projects in my stash.
I started them....but then I just came up with an excuse to drop them.
I lost interest in the process.
Picking it up yesterday taught me that I have to learn how to befriend the boredom that comes with it.
Because at the end, a beautiful creation comes out of it 💖

Moving on.....
Let's get into highlights for today.
And then I'll share part 2 of the recap of a chapter I read.
By the way, the usual read (as I call it) is 365 Days With Self-discipline
It's written by Martin Meadows...the author of The Ultimate Focus Strategy as well.
The book we'll be taking the recap from.

365 Days With Self-discipline
📌 On Complicating The World For Profit

"To earn a fortune in the diet and exercise industries, there is a dictum: complicate to profit."
Quote by Tim Ferriss

"In reality, most things are simpler than you think. You don’t need to attend expensive aerobics classes to become fit.
There’s no need to buy pricey home-delivered meals designed by some renowned doctor to lose weight.
An investment advisor can often deliver worse results than if you were to educate yourself with free articles and invest on your own."

"Whenever you want to make a change in your life and find that everywhere you look, companies involved in the industry make it complicated, step aside and review the fundamentals."

"Don’t use the fact that the industry makes things complicated as an excuse not to make a change. Educate yourself about the basics and draw your own conclusions. For you to make a change in your life, no expensive coach is necessary."

My take on this:
Change is simpler than you think.
The more complicated you make it, the harder it is for you to take action.

Now, let's continue what we started.
The recap of Chapter 2 of The Ultimate Focus Strategy.
I shared 6 points of the summary in yesterday's post.
I'll share the remaining 6 now.

STEP 2 — FOCUS: QUICK RECAP
(Continued)

7. You can lack motivation permanently or suffer from a bout of discouragement.
If you were motivated enough to work on your goal in the beginning, but now you can’t force yourself to keep going, ask yourself if you can imagine your life without accomplishing it.
If you can, it’s probable your goal is no longer the right goal for you (or perhaps it never was). Reconsider it.

If you can’t imagine your life without reaching a specific goal, this means that the goal is right, but your attitude about the process to reach it is not.
It’s time to embrace boredom. Focus on the daily actions and remind yourself each day that they will take you where you want to be.

If you’re suffering from a short-term lack of motivation because of procrastination, train yourself to do the difficult things the moment you feel the first pang of discouragement. The longer you hesitate and let the emotion build, the harder it will be to overcome it.

If you sometimes lack motivation because you just don’t feel like working, remind yourself that unless you have genuine reasons not to keep going (for instance, you’re sick and can’t work out), bad days are there to test your resolve.
Keep pushing to grow your mental toughness.

8. Prioritize your tasks by asking yourself one simple question: “What’s the ONE Thing I can do such that (by doing it) everything else will be easier or unnecessary?” The goal is to find a task that’s so important that even if you don’t do anything else during the day, you’ll still be moving forward.

9. Looking for a way to manage your to-do list?
Instead of testing dozens of time management systems, focus on just two steps: developing a not-to-do list and being as lazy as possible.
When you make a list of what you shouldn’t do at all, suddenly you’ll free up a lot of time that you could never find to accomplish your most important tasks.

Often, the problem with time management isn’t that there’s not enough time to do everything.
The root problem is that you want to do everything, but you shouldn’t.
As controversial as it sounds in a self-help sense, being as lazy as possible means that you should be as efficient as possible.

Humans are lazy by nature, and it’s not a bad characteristic if you leverage it the right way.
Always be looking for ways to do something more easily (say, by looking for an excavator to dig a hole, instead of doing the mindless work of digging for hours and hours with a shovel).

10. Stay dedicated to the process by developing an everyday routine to ensure that your days are mechanical.
Discover the best period of a day to work on your goals and stick to it religiously.

11. When setting your goal, be wary of confusing it with another, related
goal that won’t necessarily help you achieve your original objective. It’s easy to confuse the two and take the path that will divert you from where you want to go.

For example, a person who wants to get healthy shouldn’t confuse it with following a specific, rigid nutrition plan.
The final measure is how this person feels about their health, not whether they follow a specific miraculous diet that supposedly ensures perfect health.

12. If you find yourself in a plateau, ask yourself two questions. First, investigate if it’s really a plateau. Perhaps you’re not noticing results because you’re so far on your journey that progress is slower than in the beginning.

If you’re sure that’s not the case, consider changing your strategy. Some strategies become ineffective at a certain point and you can’t follow them indefinitely.
Find a new (most likely, more precise) strategy to progress further.

That's it
The rest of the recap.
Number 7 resonates with me the most because I tend to avoid boredom.
But now, I'm learning to befriend it.
Like I did yesterday with the crochet project 🧶

Anyhoo....
It's work-day tomorrow.
This week, there will be a public holiday on Tuesday for Children's day.
Tomorrow is when the school wants to celebrate the children.
It's kinda like a free day.
I may not teach the students....but that doesn't mean I won't coordinate them.

Cheers to the new week! 🍷
I'm looking forward to good happenings for us all.
More lessons, more blessings

This is where I draw the curtains, my friend.
Thanks for reading ☺️
It's 5 days to day 150...when I will do something special.
No spoilers!

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PS. I'll continue with Blast From The Past in tomorrow's post.
I'll see you there 😉

I'm Duon Ada, and I like to call myself the eccentric writer.
I'm documenting 2025,
And I'll see you tomorrow.
Ciao 💕