Now, we're really going to get into the heart of specific action steps to take in order to help you achieve focus for your business. Feel free to print these posts to refer back to them later on, or just go ahead and download the "Real Reason" report, if you haven't already done so.

Let's roll up our sleeves and get started. There are 8 action-specific tactics, which we'll break up over several days.

Ready?

1. Set Specific Times for Specific Tasks

You'll be amazed at how much a difference it makes when you set a daily schedule. Checking email every few minutes or talking on instant messenger are huge time wasters.

a. Check your email just three times per day, first thing in the morning, then again at lunch, and lastly, in the evening.
b. Keep your email client closed and turn off the feature that automatically checks for incoming email.

Instant Messenger Timesavers:

a. Yahoo and MSN, change your status to invisible or busy. You would be surprised to calculate the minutes in the day that are wasted chit-chatting on instant messenger.

b. If there are certain people in your messenger that continually interrupt your day, you can set their status to show you as offline. It's not being mean, but sometimes there are some things that you simply have to get done with minimal interruption.

c. Limit forum, messageboard and news sites visits to just once per day, or just a few times per week. It is so tempting to "hang out" and socialize, and while networking is important, resist the temptation to socialize if it's not being productive for you.

Here's something to think about.

If you spent just five minutes on only 2 forums 4x per day, that adds up to 14.4 hours per month That's almost 2 full working days!

d. Limit Your web browsing and set your default browser page to Google.com As boring as Google's homepage is, it is less distracting than MSN or Yahoo.

Next, we'll be talking about focusing on what you NEED to do rather than what you want to do.