Keep Your End Goal in Sight - 61/101 Entrepreneur Mistakes & Lessons

This is something that I've come to realize is important in entrepreneurship: keeping your goals in sight and focusing on them.I was a little distracted throughout 2016, as I mentioned earlier. And recently I heard about a story between Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, two of the world's richest men. When they both met for the first time in the early 1990s, Bill Gate's father asked Warren what his secret to success, he then said "focus", to which Bill as surprised and said his success was from focus too. This has rung true to me ever since I first heard it and has emphasized the need for focus.Action and focus are the two most important things in business. You've got to define your goals and create deadlines, and then through action and focus, you have to keep working towards your deadlines and achieving your goals. When you define a deadline and stick to it, you can achieve more in that space of time, than most people do in their lives.I'd like to go out socializing, meet some nice women, but I want to and have to focus on this book and other books, before I can relax; I have got work to do. Again, I'm doing the work once and getting paid forever. I'm doing the work that other people will not do, so I can live the life others cannot live.Focus is imperative, and do not allow yourself to become distracted.I'm moving forward to make my late Mother proud, that is the overarching principle and purpose to why I do what I do. I want to make her proud. I want to do the things she never imagined me doing. She died on the 27th September 2010 at 4:45pm from secondary breast and lung cancer, after battling it for 7 years. She used to want to me read books, but I hardly ever read one. Yet, now, I am writing them like crazy!Everything I do, I do for her, in her memory and to make her proud.I have no idea how she would react to me writing books and building business- proud no doubt. Because she died when I was 17, way before I started my journey.So, never lose sight as to what is driving you forward. The day you do, is the day you'll lose. Because when you lose your driving force, you'll be left in the dust as people overtake you.Don't lose track of what is pushing you forward!Question of the day: what is your end goal, and how are you working towards it?There are another 100 mistakes that I made here.