Obstacle Lesson #2: You Get Caught In The Next Big Thing

We live in a perma-distracted world. One day it’s about a celebrity drama, the next day about a big stock market loss, and so on.

Society has been designed in a way that the media outlets capitalize on our human nature to be alert to changes in our environment, for better or worse.

This leads to the biggest problem in the youth today…

Shortened attention spans.

The ability to focus and concentrate on one task at a time without getting distracted is becoming scarcer by the day.

And this bleeds heavily into relationships, business, and careers.

Imagine setting a massively ambitious goal for yourself. Which can be, I don’t know, to make a million dollars for example.

You’ve identified what you want and you’re ready to do the work to achieve it.

But when you sit down to try and do the work, you just can’t seem to focus on what you know you must do.

Notifications keep popping up on your phone or laptop and your brain’s always wondering if you should be completing mundane tasks that don’t accelerate your life forward.

Maybe you can relate to what I just wrote. Scratch that, I KNOW it applies to you. Just as much as it applies to me and everyone else alive today.

Otherwise, you’d have never signed up to my emails!

You’ve probably heard of “Shiny Object Syndrome.”

The feeling of missing out on the latest thing that everyone’s talking about that will quickly make your life 1000% better.

Please please listen to me when I tell you…it’s all an ILLUSION.

Sure, people could be making money or gaining fame with things like AI, which is mega-hot online at the moment.

But at the current stage of development and complexity of AI, can you confidently say it will make your life better by knowing how to use it?

Maybe a little bit, but it won’t help you make a million dollars off the bat.

Just like I talked about last time, Newton’s third law applies to everything in life. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.

There are no shortcuts when it comes to success. Everything requires the same recipe of dedication, commitment, responsibility, and hard, grueling work to see true results.

Shiny Object Syndrome causes shortened attention spans in people who want to be successful as they’ll be inclined to hop onto the next big thing that could change their lives.

Do NOT fall for this trap.

Be aware of when you’re straying too far from the path that you set out for yourself at the start.

Even if something seems old and outdated to use, such as books or old software…

If there’s no need to address an update with newer trends off the bat, then don’t.

Simply continue what you’re doing if it’s working just fine.

This is the second key takeaway that you must internalize:

“In a world of false hope and inconsistent promises, staying grounded and unwavering in your ambitions will set you apart from those with Shiny Object Syndrome.”

Mastery requires time, and the compounding effect of consistency ensures that time invested in one thing only will yield 1000x results when committed to.

With vision and self-control,

Meg :)