18: Why I’m Narrowing My Focus

About this episode

Mikaela Mathews discusses the importance of narrowing focus in business to achieve extraordinary results.

“Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.” — Gary Keller There’s a point in business where doing more stops working. More ideas. More offers. More directions pulling at you. And instead of building momentum, you start to feel scattered. That’s where I found myself recently. In this episode, I’m sharing a decision I made that changes how I run my business moving forward—and why it felt both difficult and necessary. If you’ve been feeling pulled in to...

People in this episode

Host: Mikaela Mathews

Topics covered

• business focus
• entrepreneurship
• decision making
• momentum
• scattered ideas

Keywords

• narrowing focus
• business strategy
• entrepreneur
• momentum
• decision making

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