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How to Block Out Noise, Distractions, and Negativity to Reach Your Goals
Focus on your own life instead of the media and outrage
You’re better off focusing on your goals, your immediate environment, your family, your tribe, and your local community to the exclusion of everything else the majority of the time.
The push back I get when I say this is always the same:
- But, don’t you care Ayo?
- If we don’t focus on the issues, how will we create change?
- You can’t just bury your head in the sand, you need to stay informed!
I have no choice but to be acutely aware of the problems in society. I’m a writer. Part of my job involves being aware of these problems. But unlike many people I see in today’s society, I’m not obsessed with these problems.
I see the problems, but I’m detached from them. I don’t take every negative situation I see in the world and absorb it into my psyche. I don’t carry the entire weight of my race or other groups I belong to on my back. And I definitely don’t put any stake in politicians or the institutions of society.
Instead, I focus on myself and the people I can reach.
