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How To Focus For 12 Hours A Day On Your Purpose

You won't find special results by living an ordinary life.

If you feel stuck or worn out and can't make progress towards your goals, sometimes you need to make a big change.

Mix things up completely.

Become very different from how you are now.

• Change all your habits at once.

• Get rid of everything that distracts you.

• Start that business you've been thinking about.

• Build that project.

• Work really hard and long hours.

Later, you might realize you've done more in 3 months than in the last 3 years.

You need times of intense work to reach a new level in life.

Getting up very early, like at 4 am, gives you extra hours that most people don't have.

It's a different world early in the morning.

It's quiet. People aren't awake.

There are fewer distractions.

I'm not saying you have to wake up at 4 am. That's just one example of living differently from most people.

But if you're already resisting the idea of leaving your comfort zone, even though it's not making you happy, the rest of this message probably won't help you.

Keep an open mind or stop reading.

You Already Have Motivation

You're already motivated - just for the wrong things.

You can focus on games or social media for hours without effort. But you know this isn't helping you.

The goal: Make working on your dreams just as engaging.

Create an environment that supports your goals. Understand that 12-hour workdays aren't always realistic or sustainable.

Remove obstacles that keep you from seeing life as an exciting game where effort leads to real progress.

Want to change your life? Keep reading.

Progress Cycles

Many know my 4-hour workday idea, but fewer understand I don't believe in lifelong commitments that limit growth.

Progress isn't linear. Like muscle building, productivity has cycles:

• Initial rapid gains

• Periods of consistency and intensity

• Life interruptions

• Renewed motivation and discipline

12-hour workdays aren't sustainable long-term. Forcing work leads to burnout and neglect of other life areas.

Work shouldn't be forced. If it is, change your work or mindset.

Like a lion who alternates hunting and resting, we should cycle between intense work and recovery.

There are 4 cycles of progress

You can think of these like chapters of a book.

Cycle 1: Perplexity

This is the first of four progress cycles.

You're lost and confused, like the beginning of a story.

You lack direction and purpose.

12-hour workdays are impossible because you don't know what to work on.

Many get stuck here, filling time with instant gratification. This tricks your brain into feeling productive.

To escape: Embrace curiosity.

If that's hard, we'll address progress blockers next.

Cycle 2: Curiosity

The next chapter in your book of building your dream life is curiosity.

• You identify a problem in your life.

• You dig deeper into how it’s dragging you into chaos.

The job. The bills. The sluggishness. The unfitness. The lack of social skills.

Whatever it may be. You have plenty of problems you can solve.

You’re just distracted.

You become curious and desire a solution.

At this point, your mind sees a pivotal transformation of perspective.

You start noticing information that reinforces a new goal attempting to shape your identity.

You start exposing yourself to new environments.

In the curiosity phase, your job is to try everything and see what sticks.

Shiny object syndrome is a good thing. But only if it’s toward a positive aim for your future.

• Read more books

• Join new digital social circles

• Watch new content

• Buy courses

• Build projects

• Try everything.

Allow ideas to accumulate in your brain until you gain just the right amount of clarity to go all in on that one thing you can’t pull yourself away from.

Then, launch into a season of intensity.

Cycle 3 : Intensity

The climax of the story,

The main battle,

and the most fulfilling part of your life.

The 3-6 months go by in a blur. Pure flow state. Completely focused on actualizing one meaningful goal.

• In fitness, this is when you are disciplined with your diet and training. It’s all you think about.

• In relationships, it’s the honeymoon phase. All you want to do is build your connection with one person.

• In business, it’s building and launching a new product or going on a writing spree. Both lead to new heights in growth and revenue.

This is when you pull 12-hour days, but it’s crucial not to force this intensity outside of its phase, as it can lead to burnout and low-quality work.

Be mindful when this phase becomes dangerous.

Know when to step back and transition out.

Don’t overdo it—avoid pushing too hard in fitness, relationships, or business to the point of diminishing returns.

Know when to drop down to a new baseline and maintain the progress you’ve made.

Cycle 4 : Consistency

No, consistency is not everything.

Consistency is a tool to maintain progress, not make progress.

Stagnation isn’t maintaining progress. Stagnation is death.

Being consistent doesn’t get you anywhere.

You must become curious and experiment with new angles and strategies.

When you find the right one you double down and see the most growth you’ve seen

The consistency phase in your work is when you drop down to the 4 hours of high-priority work.

The consistency cycle is important.

• It’s how you drop down and maintain your gains in the gym when life gets busy.

• It’s how you nurture a relationship after the neurochemical cocktail fades.

The big thing is – you have nothing to be consistent on if you haven’t gone through the other cycles.

If you’re stuck in the cycle of feeling lost, it’s because your mind is blocked.

Why You Can’t Focus For 12 Hours A Day With Ease

Let’s not waste any time.

You can’t focus because your mind, life, and priorities are a mess.

And you haven’t done anything about it.

1) Remove Focus Blockers

Focus is about removing anything that prevents focus.

You feel lost, distracted, and low energy for that exact reason.

• The moment you sense boredom, you fill it with the closest relief.

• The moment you sense anxiety, you do the same thing.

Your mind is guiding you toward a better life, but instead of listening to the signals, you attempt to numb the pain of not being everything you could be, making it worse in the long run.

There are a few blockers that keep you feeling lost:

Purpose

• You feel lost because you lack purpose.

• You don’t know what problem you’re solving.

• You don’t know what goal you’re pursuing.

• You don’t know your part in a whole that’s greater than yourself.

• Your mind is conditioned to focus on the goals society assigned to you.

• Your path is already known. Go to school, get a job, retire.

• You end up dragging your feet through life and getting bored because you don’t care about those things.

• You fill your boredom with laziness and pleasure instead of building toward your own goal.

• You need to allow yourself to be bored.

• You need to expose yourself to higher potentials.

• You need to drop everything and see what sticks.

• You need to sit with your thoughts so you can catch an inkling of vision.

Environment

Your environment creates who you are.

But most people forget that they’re in full control of their environment.

If you’re surrounded by people, opinions, and distractions in both the physical and digital world, it’s no wonder why you can’t focus.

Rip the bandaid off.

Take a day and quite literally throw away anything that

1. isn’t important and

2. distracts you from what is.

Don’t hesitate.

Metabolism

You lack motivation because you eat too much in one sitting.

If I eat anything over 300-600 calories as a meal during the day, as a 225 pound guy, my focus suffers immensely.

• Try intermittent fasting.

• Try smaller meals and bigger dinners.

If you eat too much, your body takes from the energy you could use for focus and puts it toward digestion.

Reward yourself with a big meal once you are finished with work.

Knowledge

• You’re lost because you don’t know what to do right now.

• You project into the future you want, get stuck there, and begin to stress over how long and difficult the journey will be.

If you’re lost, learn.

When you have direction, act.

Stop trying to act when you need to learn and learn when you need to act.

That alone will solve 99% of your clarity problems.

2) Throw Your Mind Off The Deep End

Everything starts with identity.

The web of ideas that shape how you view the world.

The perspective that’s been shaped by decades of social conditioning that makes you desire what you desire.

If you want to love working toward your dreams, your mind must reflect that.

• It can’t be some idea you like the sound of.

• It has to be who you are.

How do you change who you are?

Reprogram your mind.

Rip yourself from your current lifestyle and immerse yourself in the information that will slowly shape how you see the world.

Follow people on social media who have the goals you want to pursue.

• Listen to podcasts

• Read books

Put your money where your mouth is by purchasing courses that slowly give you ideas that compound into clarity.

Wake up tomorrow and do nothing the same.

• Plan a new week.

• Set new priority tasks.

• Have new conversations.

• Overload yourself with new information.

3) Think Bigger, Act Smaller

You are now in a state of chaos.

It’s up to you to create order.

You’re surrounded by new ideas that you can collect as building blocks for your vision. Then, you can lay those blocks, day after day, to create the life you want.

You need a vision. Without one, and by definition, you are lost.

Take out a piece of paper and write down:

• Everything you hate and don’t want in your life again (anti-vision).

• Everything you want in your future. The body. The lifestyle. The location. The mind. The money. Anything.

• Don’t worry about being shallow. You can create meaning from it later.

You will be coming back to this every week.

Your vision will become clearer and clearer with time.

As you go about this process, you are waiting for “the click” to happen.

The moment when everything clicks, and you launch into a season of intensity.

But vision isn’t the only piece of the puzzle.

Big goals are for motivation, perspective, and potential.

Small goals are for clarity, action, and sanity.

4) Reverse Engineer Your Priorities

Once you have a Minimum Viable Vision, do this.

Break it down into:

• 10-year goals

• 1-year goals

• Monthly goals

• Weekly goals

• Daily priority tasks

Then, only focus on the priority tasks.

Everything else is for clarity.

You will need to test how many priority tasks you do, when you do them, and how you structure your work.

I can usually complete 1-3 tasks within that time.

In between the blocks, I go on walks, go to the gym, get lunch, and occasionally read.

This makes my days more digestible.

5) Refine Your Productivity System Each Week

At the start of each week, I do a weekly review.

• What went well last week?

• What didn’t go well?

• What am I grateful for?

• What are my focus projects?

Stay Elevated

~Elevated Path