Learning to Manage a Short Attention Span

I have always had a super short attention span, in life and in business. I have always looked at it as my major downfall. My mind is constantly turning, coming up with new idea’s, always seemingly better than the previous. I have been known to spend weeks and even months of tireless nights hacking away at building, designing, and eventually destroying or giving up to move on to the ‘next big idea’. I get bored. I live somewhere for a year and have to move to another city, state, or even country. I walk through life realizing how precious and short it can be and am scared to miss out on the world around me. I have many friends who envy this about me, but they don’t realize how crippling it can be.

Then I realized that it’s not crippling, or a downfall, or even a bad habit. I came across Jim Coudal’s theory on short attention spans. I’ve listened to people like Steve Jobs and other great entrepreneurs talk about it. Short attention spans drive creativity. I am in no means putting myself in the same category as Coudal and Jobs, but they have helped me realize that I can harness it, take control, and make it work in my favor.

Over the past year or so, I have been slowly taking control of my finances, health, career, and life with little steps in the right direction and re-designing myself to become the best ME I can possibly be. That originally what this whole blog is about. I will be doing a series of posts about ‘re-designing yourself’. I hope you can take out of it all that I did along the way.