Seven Figure Standard
Episode 184: The Distraction That’s Stealing Your Results
By shifting your attention towards what truly matters, distractions begin to fade, productivity improves, and lasting results follow.
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About the Episode
Are you genuinely productive, or are you just comfortable being busy? The difference could be the key to unlocking your next level of growth. In this episode of the Seven Figure Standard Podcast, Arash Vossoughi and Mykie Stiller challenge the belief that being busy equals being productive, unpacking how distraction, hidden commitments, and a desire for comfort can quietly sabotage your success. Arash explains why focus is essential for creating breakthrough results and shares practical strategies for protecting your productive hours, building tiny habits, and establishing non-negotiable standards that drive lasting change. Arash also explores the role identity plays in shaping our results and challenges you to ask the harder questions. Discover how to stop chasing busyness and build a daily model of focus that drives meaningful personal and professional growth.
Key Points From This Episode
- Why the busiest person in the room is often the most distracted.
- Arash unpacks one of the greatest hidden commitments we have.
- He explains why busy and distracted are not the same thing, even if they’re often grouped.
- Why being busy is simply an honest lie.
- Arash argues why he believes busy and productive don’t create breakthroughs.
- Defining distraction: anything that takes your mind off of your end goal.
- Understanding the number one most important work habit to develop.
- How to protect yourself against distraction.
- Tools to help you build habits that keep you focused.
- Key questions to identify distraction and a commitment to comfort.
- One of the greatest forms of self-sabotage.
- The difference between two incredibly busy people: one creates results, and the other doesn’t — why?
- Grading where you are and where you need to go.
ABOUT THE HOST
MEET Arash
President and Co-Founder
Arash Vossoughi is the Co-Founder and President of Voss Coaching Co., a company committed to helping individuals, professionals and entrepreneurs break through barriers and achieve personal freedom.
MEET Mykie
CEO and Co-Founder
Mykie Stiller is the Co-founder and CEO of Voss Coaching Co, a company committed to helping individuals, professionals and entrepreneurs break through barriers and achieve personal freedom.
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