Staying focused is what keeps us on track when we are trying to reach our goals, there are many reasons why we lose focus while pursuing our goals. The constant distractions in today's world mean that maintaining focus can be very difficult. Distraction of work, home, friends, socialising, and everything else constantly compete for our attention and dedicated time. It takes time to stay focused on achieving our goals and it's so easy to fail in our attempt to maintain enough momentum, desire, energy and persistence needed to achieve our goals. As a result we often give up and think our goal is unachievable. Other reasons why we might lose focus in pursuing our goals is that we may talk ourselves out of pursuing our dreams. When we first begin trying to achieve our goals, we may be motivated by the fact that we are improving our lives and achieving what we want in life. Shortly after starting to try achieving our goals, we can often begin to question our own ability of achieving what we want. As soon as we start questioning our ability, we start to lose focus. To achieve our goals and stick with them we need to write them down, when they are in writing it’s more real to us for what we want to achieve and a constant reminder of what we are looking for in life. We also need to build a plan for reaching our goal. Our plan becomes more real when we are reading it and looking over it and it helps us determine if we are going to be able to follow it. We need to minimise distractions and get rid of as much temptation as possible that deviates us from focus on our goal. If our goal is to lose weight, then maybe we need to throw away all takeaway and delivery food menus that are delivered through our letterbox as this is a serious temptation when we might be feeling down its very easy turn to food for comfort. If our goal is to save money and reduce money spent on