Are you at the machine gun or the sniper?

We’ve all been in a situation when we wanted to do something, we had an idea. Can you remember what you did in the end with that idea?

Did you think of more ideas for a second time? Did you focus on just one idea?

Are you a machine gun or a sniper?

Going from target to target

You know the idea, everything sounds great, you write it down in an hour, you’re very busy and you believe it will be great. The next day, that idea does not sound the best, so you think of something new.

This time you are so enthusiastic about buying a web domain because you’ve already figured out the name of the whole project, but day after it all falls back and the domain is standing for a year, intact, and for a week or two you forget it or just put it on the side.

And so every few weeks something new comes up and you get it, at your best you will maybe do one thing and it will not be how it should be.

You have no idea about it, you’re just an enthusiast who walks and dreams. Let’s take this to the initial comparison, you’re a machine gun. You can not aim well, shoot at everything and mostly miss the target. You have no focus, you do not have a clear target. You hit something, but not enough to influence the outcome of the battle.

You’re a machine gun.

It is clear to you that the effectiveness is very small and that at the end of the day you end up tired, with a bunch of fired bullets, exhausted, without any specific result. Just shoot it all over, and you did not hit anything.

Focus on one target

You’re thinking of idea, okay. You slept it over couple of times and the idea still sounds good. You hid yourself and you do not talk to anyone about it.

You have started to prepare a series of actions to trigger certain activities = project. You’ve been exploring other people are doing similar things, watching them what they do = research.

Prepare yourself, patiently and in silence. Observe the enemy and work out the strategy of the attack.

You are a sniper.

You look at one target, want to get to know her better than she knows, see how she is moving, what she is doing and focus on the perfect opportunity. If you wait too long, you will not succeed. If you’re going too fast, you will not succeed.

You are standby, ready to go any time.

You’ve worked out everything and started the project – one project. One idea. You took a piece of time and you promised yourself that you will take that time for that one project.

What’s the difference?

Focus determines what you will do, how you will do it, and how successful you are going to be.

If you go for more than one side, you promise a bunch of that, do more, you’re overwhelmed, any thought that comes to your head is shaken in the short term, and then talk about it for the next half a year how to start and how it will be great and it is nothing or half nothing, you just spent your time for nothing.

Choose one thing you can do. Choose one thing you will focus on, and you can dedicate enough time to develop it properly.

Focus on one target.

We all want a lot, the author of this text would like to start at least 10 another projects and he believes that everyone would be equally successful, only if every project is running in their own time, not in parallel. The biggest mistake people are doing is doing multiple thins on multiple sides.

Somehow we can manage two projects in parallel, but more than that is not recommended, so it would be good to automate some of the existing projects to get you into the new one.

Anyway, I wish you a lot of luck with projects, and if you need free advice about marketing on social networks, launching your own project and anything else, please let me know at mirko@different.hr and I will be happy to help 🙂

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