Thread by @seb_g

1/ How To Find Focus As A Solo Founder

#startups #founders #coders #indiehackers

Imagine being able to sit down and focus on your most important tasks that translate your time into direct measurable success

Here’s how:

2/ Being a Solo Founder who has trouble focusing means that you get less done than you want which in turn makes your business less successful than you'd like.

3/ Imagine being able to sit down and focus on your most important tasks that translate your time into direct measurable success. You would work through your to-do list steadily and effectively without worrying you are working on the wrong thing.

4/ You would hit your monetary goals without stress and anxiety.

Unfortunately, being a Solo Founder makes it very hard to focus because there isn't anyone else who can work as a sounding board thinking partner.

5/ Thankfully you can learn how to focus by treating yourself as a co-founder

You’ll do this through the power of writing to yourself
• You'll write what you're going to do
• You'll write what you did
• You'll write what you learned
• You'll write what you need to change

6/ By writing these 4 different steps, you'll be able to overcome the feeling of anxiety and stress of not being sure what to work on and whether it's working.

Let's dig into each of these steps:

7/ Step 1: Write what you are going to do

Before you start randomly working on your business, it's important to write down what you are going to work on and why.

8/ This does a few things:

a) keeps you honest on what you're going to work on,

b) makes you think about it, and

c) you can later check to see if you worked on what you wrote you'd work on.

9/ Step 2: Write what you did

Now that you've done the work, it's time to write down what you actually did (not what you planned to do).

This will keep you from getting distracted when you are working because you know that you'll have to write down what you actually did.

10/ And knowing that you'll hold yourself accountable will help you stay focused. This will also help you keep track of how long things take and whether you were able to accomplish what you set out to get done.

11/ Step 3: Write what you learned

This meta step is important because you want to write down what worked well for you in this instance so you can do more focused work in the future.

12/ You've already written about what you did, so don't replicate it here. Instead write down what you learned about trying to accomplish this goal.

13/ Don't worry about fixing it or changing it, that's the next and final step. The important thing here is to write down what you noticed about how you worked.

14/ Step 4: Write what you need to change

Now you can focus on what you can and should do differently the next time you work on something.

15/ This will help you focus better in the future as well as motivate you because you are figuring out how to best work within the confines of your project and your work area.

16/ Which means that the next time you decide to work, you'll be able to focus better because you'll have a better plan for what work to do, how much work to do, and you'll be confident that you'll learn from how you're working.

17/ If you found this helpful, jump back to the top tweet (see below) and retweet it to help other solo founders be more focused!

18/ Initial tweet:

https://twitter.com/seb_g/status/1512302431505375235