Get LASER FOCUSED for 2024 (in 18 minutes)

**Shaan Puri** (0:00)
Hey, what's up? It's Sean. Quick note. This episode, I am going over something that's a very important topic, and I think it's a great episode. But if you're listening to this on iTunes or Spotify, you're not gonna be able to see the images because I basically hand drew a bunch of diagrams of the frameworks that I'm talking about here, and I hold them up so you can see them on camera. And honestly, they're pretty good. I spent a lot of time on this, tens of minutes, let's say. But no, in actuality, it's actually pretty useful, and I think the diagrams help it a lot. So for this episode, I would strongly recommend you go to YouTube so that you can actually see what I'm talking about. Otherwise, it might get a little funky if you're just listening. You're gonna be trying to imagine what I'm talking about, but it's a lot easier if you just go to YouTube. So, enjoy this episode and go to youtube.com or the app, and then just type in My First Million. You'll see it right there up top, very easy. And check it out.
You can do anything, but you can't do everything. And that is what I wanna talk about today. Ruthless focus, laser-like focus for 2024
I have not been great at focusing in the past. In the past, I have let myself get distracted. I have let myself set a goal at the beginning of the year. And by the end of the year, I check in and I'm like, where the hell, what did I do all year? Why did I drift? And it's not something malicious. It's not like a total fail, but it's just this drift that I didn't like. And I wanted to get better. And I'm gonna show you what works for me. How do you get more focused? How do we get the laser like focus that all the great ones exhibit? Whether it's in sports and you see Kobe Bryant completely obsessed in entertainment. You see Mr. Beast is completely locked in and obsessed. In business, you'll see somebody like Mark Zuckerberg, laser focused on one thing trying to make that happen. And they don't let themselves drift the way the rest of us do. So here's the little visual.
This is you.
And this is all the things that you might do.
So this is some new thing that's going on, the election. This is Love is Blind season five. This is that investment somebody wants you to do. This is that email you got from that person who wants to do a call and pick your brain. This is that side hustle that's not really gonna go anywhere. That's all the things. And then the blur thing is the thing you actually want. This is the thing that you would feel proud of at the end of the year if you made this happen. And so what we need is laser like focus. We do not want the cone to be wide. I'm gonna show you how we do that. All right, quick message from our sponsor. We know that growing pains hurt. And when you're a startup sales team, you know that pain all too well. Thankfully, there's the HubSpot for Startups program. It's a special program that gives startups discounts on HubSpot. The platform unites your entire front office from marketing to sales to support. Plus they have a ton of other resources that startup founders can use to scale. So get ready to close more deals and make growing pains a thing of the past. Visit hubspot.com/startups to see how much you can save.
So first thing you want to do.
This is a before and after of how you can operate.
And again, we have all the possible things that we could be saying yes to. And you want to think about your yes threshold. So let's write that out. This is your yes threshold.
Thresh hold.
And before it might be, you know, here. So you might have your yes threshold right there. And what you're doing is you're saying yes to anything above that line. If it's below that line, you're able to say no, but you're able to say yes to everything above that line. And the after, all we have to do, the first thing you have to do is simply acknowledge, bring your awareness to how low your yes threshold is and raise it, raise your standard for yes. And so instead of saying yes to things that are pretty good, maybe interesting, might be worth doing, pretty cool, it needs to, you take your yes to a hell yes. That is the easiest thing you can do. So we're gonna raise the yes threshold, right? We're gonna take it from here up to here.