Time to Focus!

Over the past 94 weeks, I've been on a mission to get fit, loose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle. It's been quite a journey, what with setting up a new film company, producing a slate of 5 feature films and juggling my work-life balance and loosing 45kg! A story I will save for another post. However, what I've learnt along the way, is that focus and sustainability is really important to me, especially if I need to get things done and keep moving forwards. When I focus on one task at a time, I can perform close to 100% of my capabilities. I push myself beyond my limits, I feel uncomfortable but achieve things that I'd never thought I would achieve. I give myself the space to be able to perform. 

Things are much clearer and less complicated when I'm focused. Of course, we all know this, but in our busy lives we just don't create that space to allow us to focus and perform to anywhere near 100%. For example, during my workouts, I have a set of pre-defined workouts to do over a week, I schedule a time-slot and get them done #noexcuses. During my workout my mind and body is so focused on breathing, good form and getting the workout done, I don't think of anything else, literally nothing at all! It's a great feeling to accomplish a single task, day by day seeing (and measuring) the improvements in my fitness, beating my personal best and pushing myself beyond the limits that I never thought I would do, the overall results equals BIG progress. Small 'daily', manageable steps, working towards your bigger goal (a fit and healthy lifestyle, an event, weight-loss or producing a film) is the key.  

As I push forwards with the next level of my fitness, I'm working more on sustaining a routine that's realistic, a routine that works for me and most importantly, one I enjoy. This, along with good diet, I should be in a good place going forwards. I am also applying this ethos to my work, producing my first feature film, a monumentous task, but it's the small steps, day to day progress that counts and will get you to that all important premiere.

Stay focused boys and girls, it's a very noisy world we live in, with distractions coming from every direction. Sometimes all you need to do is switch off, kick back and workout #noexcuses