With your activities, with the flood of information coming to you from the internet, television, radio, the press, your friends, your colleagues, your loved ones, you sometimes lose focus on your goals. Sometimes you let yourself be too influenced by all these elements that make up our environment.

It is rather recommended to be informed about what is happening around us because this allows us to understand the values, trends and needs of our environment.

But “fault” is when you consider what the world thinks more than your own thoughts; there is a problem when you rarely have an opinion of your own; there is a problem when you think that others have better answers to your own questions; there is a problem when your decisions depend more often on others than on yourself.

Operating at the expense of those around you in this way can lead to you losing focus on your true goals. In these situations, you are not in control of our future.

So how can we reduce the risk of losing track? How can we stay focused?

It is imperative to plan your activities and keep a logbook. We have talked about this (refer to the Now or Never article) specifically in terms of daily planning as a good habit to adopt to better manage your time.

But if the goals remain daily, the planning work remains daily. A boring routine sets in, and you develop phlegm and laziness. And yet the goal isn’t to plan your days, but to realize that scheduling your daily life is only the beginning of a life process.

Planning your daily life helps you organize your life better and manage your time better. Developing the habit of planning allows us to see further and further into the future (week, month, year, decade, why not century, and beyond?).

Sometimes you have to stop and project yourself really far, as far as possible, sometimes to where the limits of your dreams are, the things and events that sometimes seem improbable to you, visualize them, analyze them and plan what seems to you to be in agreement with you and your reality.

Let’s take the example of a higher education program: Once you know the duration of the program and the activities that make it up, you divide it into years, semesters, months, days, and hours. In this way, every action you take is a contribution to the achievement of a goal that is always greater than the action itself. It is no longer a question of seeing your program as a set of specific tasks to be completed in a day, but as a set of tasks that are part of activities that themselves contribute to the achievement of an objective and bring you closer to your goals.

Why don’t we manage our time like projects (even if the expression seems quite formal)?

Project examples:

• higher education (plan higher education);
• pre-employment training (planning how to increase your chances of a pre-employment internship leading to recruitment);
• food (planning the rational management and quality of what we put in our food);
• family (plan actions that concern family life: visits, calls, meetings, etc.).

It’s about stopping for a moment, listing the groups of information like those mentioned above. You can then make short expressions out of them (Example: “formsup”, “formemploi”, “alim”, “famille”) and use them in your daily planning, either by grouping the tasks, or by listing them as usual with at the end of each of them, in anthesis, the corresponding group (Example: Working in a group at 4:00 p.m. (formsup)).

So you keep in mind that this action you are taking now is contributing to you carrying out a greater activity.

A student attends a course that is part of a program, which is contained in a semester, which is part of a year, included in a training cycle.

From my point of view, this is a safe way, while considering your environment, to keep focus!