Let’s be honest, some days I find it hard to focus. In fact, I was almost too distracted to write these words!

However, in order to get things done we need to focus on the task at hand. Yet that ability can seem fleeting. What can be done to regain focus when it is lost?

Darius Foroux has struggled with a lack of focus and learned some lessons on how to restore it. He shares them in a post on his website called, “What I Do When I Can’t Focus.” He starts by identifying a prime impediment to focus, the dreaded distraction.

Focusing on a single thing is one of the hardest things at work.

There’s always something that interrupts you, right? …

Sure, you can blame those things — but that’s weak. You and I both know that those things can’t interrupt you without your permission.

That means every time you’re not focused; you’re giving someone or something permission to enter your mind.

Foroux goes on to provide his first strategy for getting focused. It involves elimination.

What did I do when I lacked focus? I asked myself this question:

“What thing(s) should I eliminate to make my life so simple that it’s easy to focus?”

In this case, I stopped focusing on YouTube. Elimination is a key strategy that I use for many aspects of my life.

We accumulate so much unnecessary baggage throughout the years that we consistently need to eliminate ideas, projects, work, objects, and so forth.

Read more about this strategy and Foroux’s second strategy on his website. Then it try it yourself and see if focus returns.