You Don’t Lack Focus — You Lack a System | The Black Coffee Club™
The Black Coffee Club™April 28, 202600:59:5854.89 MB

You Don’t Lack Focus — You Lack a System | The Black Coffee Club™

Focus problems aren’t caused by lack of motivation—they’re caused by lack of structure. Discipline systems, daily routines, and intentional planning create consistency when feelings fade.

Most people say they can’t focus, but the truth is—they don’t have a system strong enough to carry them when motivation disappears. You don’t drift because you’re lazy. You drift because your life has too many open loops and not enough structure holding things in place.

In this episode of The Black Coffee Club™, we break down why motivation fades, why intention alone doesn’t create results, and why structure—not emotion—is what produces real focus. If you’ve ever felt distracted, overwhelmed, or inconsistent, this conversation will help you understand what’s actually missing.

Because here’s the reality:

Focus isn’t a feeling you wait for.
It’s a system you build.

We’ll talk about the difference between intention and execution, why most people depend on motivation instead of discipline, and how building simple repeatable systems creates clarity, momentum, and results.

This episode is for anyone who feels scattered, inconsistent, or tired of starting over.

Not because you lack drive…

But because your system isn’t strong enough yet.

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⏱️ CHAPTERS

0:00 — Opening Reality: Focus Isn’t a Feeling
5:00 — Why Motivation Always Fades
12:00 — Focus vs Intention: The Real Difference
20:00 — The Role of Structure in Daily Discipline
30:00 — Why Most People Drift Without Systems
38:00 — Building Systems That Carry Your Focus
43:00 — Closing Challenge: Build the System

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It's it says the Black Coffee Club it self, Mastery conversation. That's the that is the group, man, that's the group. So I'm a vent dp rocker. What's up with your homie, I'm an event for a second cause I'm tired, man. And I just realized. I realized today what I'm sick of. Like the world is outrageous, Like this new world, this is not a real place. Like this new world is outrageous. Like it's not like it's really outrageous, y'all. Like I'm not joking and I'm looking that stuff and I'm like, how did we get here? Like? What did I miss? How did we get here? And you know what I realized? What I realized? You know, people are And I don't you know, I'm not a pocket watcher, you feel me, per se, I don't you know. I ain't a player hater or nothing like that. But I can't stand a lot of dumb shit like I don't like dumb shit like I don't like I don't like stupid shit, y'all. So I'm probably gonna I'm probably gonna offend y'all. S Luther King Vonnie, he said, he in there like swimwear. I can't stand a whole lot of I can't stand a whole lot of goofy shit, you feel me. And one of the goofy things that I that I see people wasting money on, it's dogs. It's dogs. And when I say waste the money on, I'm not saying to not have a dog, or to not have a pet, or not have a family pet. Kids said. I do not like dumb shit at all. But people be paying like thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars for these dogs, right for these special dogs. You feel me, these special breed dogs, these breeds of dogs that people then made up these uh Schniker Schneker Schneker poodles and Yankee doodle hoos and all this bullshit. And you didn't pay five, six, ten thousand dollars for months kid, they mnths You paying all this money for these MutS. And guess what, like they pay all these money for these damn dogs, and these motherfuckers can't even walk to carry these bitches everywhere. Man, I be I'm sick of the man, I'm sick of the bullshit, Like you didn't pay You didn't pay ten thousand dollars for a dog and you gotta carry the motherfucker because his legs don't work. You understand what I'm saying, Like you didn't pay fifteen thousand dollars for his special little dog with blue eyes, and you gotta carry that bitch in a Michael Chorus bag because his legs don't work. Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Ten thousand dollars for a dog and you can't sick it on them? Nobody Underscorre said they won't bike ankles, bro like they bruh, Hey man, ten thousand dollars for a dog and you can't sick him on nobody. He ain't finna protect nothing, Dirk gang Boss said, or in a strong you didn't pay ten k for a dog and you can't. And he can't even walk good, he can't run. I'm looking at these I'm looking at these motherfucking little frenchy. Yeah, man, I got these frenches. I'm looking man, what the fuck nigi if y don't get that little shit out of here? Man, people used to have these dogs brouh used to be able to take down cattle. You feel me? These was working dogs. They used to be able to take down cattle. They used to be able to protect your house. You feel me like these dogs used to be able to protect shit. Like if you spending mon b if I spend, man, if I spend, if I spend two hundred and fifty dollars on the dog, I better be able to sikim on. Somebody got me a dog and name my bitch nigga eater, like I better be man. My dog gonna be a They talk about eaters and I ain't not the eaters like y'all like either, y'all aint gonn want to see my eaters? You feel me now, I got some eaters and to be like eaters. You got eaters. That man where them eaters at? Nah, you ain't wanna see these eaters. They gonna eat your ass, you feel me, literally, and not not the way you want your ass. Eight. They gonna eat you from the root to the tutor. You feel me. Nah, Bro, they gonna get on your They gonna get on your ass. These but these people be paying thousands and thousands and thousands of dollars for all these all these special dogs. Man, and you can't even sick it on nobody. Bro, you understand what I'm saying. Picture me paying ten thousand dollars for a dog and he won't bite nobody. Kid said, I got a frenchie. Curry you a Dodo? You got a frenchie, and is he gonna buy curR you a Dodo? You need? You ain't no dodo. You need supervision, That's what you need. You need supervision. You supposed to you that money. You supposed to go get you a god damn you're supposed to go get you a goddamn a. I don't even want to say it can Corso you're supposed to go get you a motherfucker, a bull masted for something. You feel me? Got me a dog and the ain't need my bitch nigga either. You know what I mean. You're supposed to get you a dog that you can walk with no chain. She said, I got a forty cow. I don't need no dog. Yeah, there you go. I got a forty caliber. I don't need no dog. I got a forty cow two on the cool. I got that. I got that for. I got a ruger. You feel men got that forty cow ruger. That's my carry, that's my caceal like people be like, man, you gotta conceal carry a forty cow. Yeah, I'm a big old nigga, A big old nigga. You feel me it got a forty on me. You can't even know what I'm a big old niggle. Hey man, I'm tired of these dogs, man, and you can't even care. Ah Man, Big Dad says, I'm guilty of this. But my frenchy alert of the pit, who tell me they got it done? You feel me? Big Day's got a frenchie too, y'all some suckers, Hey man, I'm feelish man, I'm finished man, I'm finna give. I'm feeling. Make me a dog. You just stand them telling, make me a breed of dog. Man, y'all be out here bad and these dogs man for what just because the way they look. See Man, it's we all guilty of it. Man, you feel me. This is the social media pressure many, I guess stay off social media. Look look, look, Dad said I got five of them. He got five Frenchies bro at ten thousand dollars a piece. That's fifty thousand dollars worth a bitch ass dog that can't seek nothing. You got fifty thousand dollars worth a dog. And they gotta tell the people. Bull pet bulls been around forever, he can say, I'm talking about pig bulls. Get the shit done. Ah, man, I'm tired of these dogs. Man. Y'all hey, man, we gotta come back. We gotta come back to the world. Man. Did pap Paul have a Frenchie? No, Papaul had a German. Your granddaddy had a mutt. He probably had one full bread dog. That full bread dog. It was one of three dogs, one of three dogs that your papa. I'm talking about. Your papa Papaul had one of three dogs. He had a German shepherd. You ungstad im talking about far It was a fool breed. The fool breed dog was a German. It was either a German shepherd, It was a it was a It was an American pit bull or something in the in the in the in the pit bull family, a pit bull bull mast or something in that family, young stay, I'm talking about or he had might have had a Doberman pincher, you feel me. In a few instances, y'all might have had a husky, yeah, yeah, or a German shepherd. I mean, I said, German, or a what's the other one? A Doberman pincher. It might have been one of them. You I didn't start seeing I didn't start seeing Rock Willers until I got a little bit older. Then I started with like my teenage years, I started seeing rockwise. But I'm talking about as a young year growing up. Papa had one of them three dogs. So he had that dog. Then the other dog he had was a mutt. You feel me. It was a mutt. It was a It was a Laboratory retriever mixed with a pit bull, mixed a German shepherd, mixed with a chow chow. It was it was something you feel. You saw some child chows too, but the child chous was mean as fuck. Child child's will get on your ass you if you child child's will tell your ass up like child chous was mean as fuck. Like I hate every child. Everybody in my family that had a child child hated they dog. Yeah, yeah, look, kids said we had a bull mastive growing up. Y'all had a rot. Y'all had rots, childs and pitts. Yeah, them the dogs we had growing up. Bro, we didn't have no frenchie deads. You know better, Bro, I thought you had that Pap Paul. I thought you had that real live Poppap spirit in you. Broke. You run around here, do all the work you can build a house. You can build a house from the root of to the tutor you feel and you smoke him like, man, you ben. You a wild ass Indian bro, And you run around here with frenchies. Bro, you run around with Frenchies. That's a colonizer dog. Man, I'm disgusting DEAs. It's like when I found out the fucking Easter Bunny wasn't real. Bro. I'm over here with my feelings hurt. Bro. You run around here with five with fried frenchies. Bro. You from Memphis. Bro, you're from North Memphis. Man, I'm disgusted. Man, I'm disturbed. Bro. Oh god, I hate these dogs. Man, dirt gain, I hate these dogs. Man, you can't underscore said I never patted the child. You can't, Bro, you can't pet no child. Child. Bro. The only person can touch a child is the owner, and that depends on what day it is. Man. You can't pet no child. Bro, you can't. I can't even get close enough to a child to pet on. Bro. I'm not Bro, I'm not messing with no childs. Man, I'm not messing with no child childs. Man. I'm tired of these I'm tired of all these expensive ass dogs. Man, I'm tired. And then y'all be having diamond like a Nilla probably got a diamond crusted necklace on her on her frenchyet. Man, I'll get out of here, man, Dad said. Man, they can hear you feel the fuck them dogs, Man, I hope they do hear me. I hate yild No them dogs is like my kids. That's the other thing. Dogs is not no kids. Dogs is dogs. You said to sit the muffled, sit the on frenches outside and feed their ass corn bread and leftover chicken and table scraps and mix that shit in with your food. Kid said he definitely got a chain. Man. I hate I hate you. I hate y'all. Man. I will say some evil shit, man, but I don't want to be I don't want to be evil. I will say some evil shit. Man. The hell with them dogs? Man, kill a fuck y'all dog too. Y'all run around here with these little, these little bitch two hundred dogs. Man, get you a dog that's gonna fat out ten thousand dollars for a dog and he ain't gonna bite nothing. Man. I'm sick. I'm sick of y'all. Y'all part of the problem. Man. It's time for y'all to come back to reality. I'm tired of y'all these damn dogs. What's up with it? Taite? Where are what are dogs at? Man? No wonder people want to carry their dogs in the grocery store and say, y'all just as bad as them? DP Rocket said Peter coming to get Junior. Man, The hell with Peter too. They be picking battles, man, they be picking battle his name he named he? She didn't name the damn dogs her captain. She didn't name the dogs her captain. What's what's your what's your Frenchies' names? He probably named his dog Swede leather. Man. I hate them dogs, man, I'm mad. I'm man. It ain't the only Frenchies. It ain't just Frenchies. It ain't just Frenchies. All these doodles, any dog that end with the name doodle, any kind of doodle, pool and doodles and pools and all that shit. Y'all be paying all that money for these dogs, man, and they can't even do nothing. Man, Like, I'm disturbed. I'm I'm highly disappointed in you. Brother. Like I just I just bro, I just I just knew you had some some cane corsos man, some working dogs. Bro. Bro you built, you built, You lay floors and ship bro like you lay floors like you literally like, but you work like you be working like you you're big. You got big old you got big old duly trucks and shit bro tools, you got tools like you got tool belts. You got a tool. You got a toolbox on your truck. Bro, and you got Frenchies. Bron. You go home and you later you sit on the couch and your Frenchies crawl all over you and shit, Bro, Man, this is like when Santa Claus one. I found out Santa Claus one real. Bro, Man, that's ridiculous. Bro, you want to redeem this Bro, Now, I can't say that on here. Bro. I get I just I'm gonna lose my monetization. I'm telling you, man, he said that. He said his dog named Turbo Junior. He man, I'm tired anyway. Man, y'all get on my damn nerves getting these expensive dogs that don't do nothing. Man, they can't even dogs can't even pull with nothing. Like get you a San Bernard, you feel me, Like, get you if you're gonna spend out that money, man, get you a same Bannard with the barrel around his neck, and keep your bourbon in the same banar's barrel, Like do something right. Like, Man, if shit, if I pay ten thousand for a doll that motherfucker, that motherfucker gonna be in here sweeping, mopping that nigga. If I pay, if I pay ten thousand dollars for a dog, he gonna be playing the damn he gonna be playing the base like Tom did. When he was trying to serenad that white cat. You feel me, the dog gonna have to extremely entertain me. Bro, You understand what I'm saying. I didn't seen the meme of a dog. It's like a little dog and he mephis jugging. Y'all seen that meme with the dog and they play that yeah, yeah, yeah, and the dogs start jugging. Like if I get a ten thousand dollars for a dog, he better be able to do the goddamn gangster walk and mephis jug I ain't bullshit like, I'm not playing, bro, I'm not joking, like, he better be able to do some outstanding shit. That nigga better be able to play poker like them dogs on poker, that on the poker picture that my dog Beary be able to play poker. He better be able to play spades. Ten thousand dollars, my dog Beary be able to play spades. It'd be about spade partner until the end of time. You feel me like, I don't, man, y'all. I hey, man, ten thousand dollars for a dog. Man that that fucking fart and snore when he's sleeping. Shit, Man, I got gotta have a special diet you gotta feed. Y'all be feeding them little bit ass dogs, soft dog food and shit, y'all be making the dog for y'all. Y'all be feeding them punk ass dogs, steamed chicken breasts and broccoli. Fuck man, y'all knew what y'all know how we grew up, man Kojo, y'all know how we grew up. We grew up under the Kujo Act. That dog was outside, man, tied to the clothes line. You feel me. We used to feed them out ice cream buckets and water bowls. You know stand I'm talking about? And the dog. If a dog had a doghouse, it was a luxury. You hear me? Ah, man, I hey man, what's up with y'all? Man, Let's gonna get a little little boiled rice and chicken? Man? I hate it here, bro, dads, I'm highly disappointed. I'm disturbed. Bro, I'm disturbed. Bro, I'm disturbed. Dirt game about said the Kujo Act? What the fuck? Kojo? Bruh? You know what Kujo? You know who Kujo was. We grew up man Kujo. Bad motherfucker broke? He said those were dogs. We have pets. I could see Kida having a Frenchy bro like I really like, I ain't really tripping too tough on Kida. Man, you understand what I'm saying. You know, I ain't really too like you know that, Hey that's a female. You tripping DEEPO, that's a female. So I ain't tripping too tough on Kia. Bro, Hey Dad, you hurt my feelings. Bro that you hurt my feelings, Bro, like I can't. I'ma have a hard tame trusting nigga that got a frenchie and you got five of them. Bro, Like, I'm having a hard time trusting nigga that like I thought I could trust you with my life. Bro, you got Frenchy bulldogs. Man, I ain't so sure. No more, Bro, like this shit crazy said. My g babies love him. See, niggas always got to bring up baby, So now I gotta get now. I got to ease up because he brought up the grandkids. Shout out to the grand babies, bro, and the and they're good with the grand babies. Man, I okay, Bro, I ain't. I can't even fight that. Bro. You know what I'm saying. My daughter grew up. My oldest daughter grew up with a you know she had they had a They had a b shon uh at her mama house. And then my house, I had American bulldog and his name was Pharaoh, you feel me. And she used to ride around on Pharaoh. And then when I disciplined her, I had to put Pharaoh up because Pharaoh will get on my ass about my daughter. You feel me? But I you know, you bring up the grandkids, DP rocket sett f my grandkids. They break in my pockets. Now, don't fuck the grandkids broke or get some more money. What is we doing here? Brother? Hey man, salute to y'all. Man, Thank y'all so much. Man. I appreciate y'all listening to my bullshit, man, because I you know, I'll be having the this is like the last place where you can be a real person, man, and I'll be having like for real, you know, things I be wanting to say. You know, I have things that I be wanting to talk about, you know what I mean. And that's just that's just the uh, that's just the reality. I really truly be having things that I want to talk about. Man, hey man, dirt game. Hey, this this is the this is the twenty eighth day of the fourth month of the year twenty twenty six. Man, are you bullshit ting? You feel me? Are you still bullshitting like? That's what I need to know? Are you still bullshitting like? Man, we got it. You need a system, family, like, you need a system. I'm not joking. You need a system. We gotta figure this shit out, man, And we gotta figure this shit out today today, we gotta figure this out. You feel me. You need a system. You need a system, a system. We have got to get in here, and we have got to come in with a system. It is the twenty eighth day of the fourth month of the year two thousand in twenty six. Yeah, you need a system. No more just operating in, flying off the seat of our pants, no more just playing around, no more just floating as we talked about yesterday, Right, we got this. We got life going on, man, Like we got real life going on and were just going through the motions and life is on autopilot. And then you look up, you tired, and it ain't got nothing accomplished. You feel me like, you literally look up and you tired. And what if we got done? Like, what do we got to show for being tired because we have all this motion, right, we have all this motion, but we have not made the progress. Why you need a system, man, like you need a system. Yeah, So let's get in here, man. I didn't bullshit it enough, man, Let's get in here and get to it. Now. This is something most people understand, most people misunderstand about themselves, and it's something that people complain about every single day, and that is that I can't focus. They say, I can't focus. I feel distracted, you know what I mean. I just don't have the discipline. This is the stuff that I hear people say all the time. And I'm looking and I'm puzzled, and I'm scratching my head, like, man, what the like? Man, I'm truly at a loss. Excuse me, I'm truly at a loss because we you know, shit, I'm down there fifty, down there fifty, and I'm here to tell you. You don't lack focus, right, you don't lack focus. You lack a system. You lack a system. You are literally lacking a system. You gotta let that sit because this ain't This ain't about motivation, This ain't about no WheelPower, This ain't about how you feel today. Focus is not an emotional thing. Focus is structural, one hundred percent structural. It is one hundred percent structure. And when structure is missing, distraction becomes normal. You feel me, being overwhelmed becomes normal. Starting over and having to start over and reset becomes normal. So today we are not while we're talking these few minutes we're gonna talk, we are not absolutely one not fixing feelings. I don't give a damn about your feelings today. I don't give a damn about your feelings today. If you need me to give a damn about your feelings today, then you probably want to click off and come back tomorrow, because I might actually care about your feelings tomorrow. Today, I don't give a motherfuck about your feelings because we're not fixing feelings. We are building systems. Let's get it. So. I'm hustled harder than the moment. I'm a feast on these streets. Gator revolver, I Tolka trying to take me off the block where I'm posted up daily sip baileys out the bottles, Yes and leading. I just looked up up jumped the bugey, and I looked at the time, up jumps the boogie, and I looked at the time and I said, damn, where did the tam go? Where did the tam go? I've been in here playing. So now we gotta work. So let's get to it, all right. So let's start with motivation, because most people believe that motivation is the answer. You feel me. They wait to feel ready. Like you know what I'm saying. People be like, I gotta feel it, I gotta feel it like. People are literally waiting and waiting and waiting to feel ready. People wait to feel energized. You understand, people are waiting to feel inspired. And when that feeling disappears, so does the focus. So people are only focused during the times of motivation, during the times of being energized, during the times of inspiration, and when those feelings disappear, so does the focus. And here's the problem. Motivation is temporary, those feelings are temporary. Structure is permanent. Motivation fades because the fact of the matter is your emotions are gonna fluctuate. Think about it. Think about how many emotions you go through on a daily basis. Think about how many emotions we literally flow through on a daily basis. The way you feel right now is not gonna be the way you possibly might not be the way you feel in an hour. You understand like it all changes. Emotions fluctuate, life happens, stress happens, fatigue happens, pressure happens. But your systems, your systems, don't care how you feel. Your systems don't care how you feel. Your systems operate when you're tired or energized or distracted you feel me, your systems are going to operate regardless. Yeah, So let me ask something. How many times, we'll say, in the last year, the last three hundred and sixty five days, how many times have you started something with motivation and stopped when the motivation, when the feelings of motivation faded. How many times have you started something with motivation and then stopped when that feeling faded? Think about it, get think about it. Think about it. The gym, projects, plans, businesses, habits, diets. Yeah, yeah, all of them. You start with complete, one hundred percent motivation. I'm finna get this together, I'm finna do it. You understand what I'm saying. Then the motivation fades, and guess what you stop? You stop? You stop. That's not failure, that's not failure. That is system absence. You feel me. That is the absolute absence of a system. Period Your system is absent. Yeah, yeah, you need a system. Let me talk about intention, because intention is dangerous when it's not supported by structure. People say, I intend to wake up earlier, I intend to work harder, I intend to stay consistent. But intention without structure is gonna create frustration. You feel me, And here's the reality. Excuse me. Intention starts things like intention starts things, but only the systems can finish them. Only a system can finish it. Intentions start things, but systems finish them. You don't finish work because you feel like it. You finished work because you scheduled it. Yeah, you protected it, you designed it. That's the difference. Yeah, that's the difference. Man. Salute to everybody in the chat. Man. I didn't. I didn't. I didn't even run a new day, so I didn't even I didn't even give y'all, y'all solitations. Salu to our brother King Vonnie in a building, what's up with it? Salute Kiya Allen in the building aka Naeler the Great? What's up with you? Salute the ABU in here with the brick by brick, the bricks and dice. HNH, what's up with you? Salute to we got King Vonnie already, Salute to you. Salute the Big Day's counking down my BCU family, what's up with you? Salute to Tiffy two. What's happening? Salute to Thrive and Glow with Joe? What's good with you? Joe? Salute the k Underscore? What's up with the family? Salute to the dirt Game bous in the building? What's up with your Homi? Salute to you? Salute the four our sniper man pulling double duty over on the rumble. Salute to you. Let me see, uh we got a snipe? DP Rock in the building. What's up with your homie? Salute to you man if I'm at back of the South? What's up with your homies? Salute to you Felix new there as Junior aka the Artists in the building, what's up with you? Let me see make sure I got Did I get everybody? I got everybody? If I missed your name, please blame it on my head and not my heart. I'm I'm over here, all discombobulated because I realized it's nine thirty salute to sweet Tate in brown in the building. What's up with your sister? I've been in here playing all morning? Looked up and realized is nine thirty salute the Sheldon LDBC or nothing in the building over there on the rumble, he said, I had a I had a cocker doodle as a kid. His name was Max, and he was mean as hell. Man. They didn't have cocker doodles when you was a kid. Bro, you a you you're a liar. You have something else, bro? You had a mutt that just looked like a cocker doodle. They didn't have no cocker doodles when we was little. Bro. You you you uh thirty eight bro going on on sixty's your old ass? Let me see who else am I missing? He said cook Joe had rabies. Now he said Coojoe had brabies. You know how Sheldon talked? Sheldon got that lunch counter city in voice, saluted my brother. I am trill Will in the building. What's up what you brought? Slew my brother trill Will aka a country a country will, big country Will. He over there achering and four wheeling and all types of shit. So did my brother be about the farms in the building, he said, systematic. Mine is the name of my market monitoring system. You need a system. Yeah, you need a system. Salute al I D in the building. What's up with you? La D? Salute to you? She said, I want to call the kid Nolla the Great that's her name. That's her name on here. You know they just show y'all the other names. All right, So we talking about intentions, and intentions start things, but you need systems to finish it. Period. Let me give you an example. You intend to work out, but your day has no time block, no preparation, no routine. Guess what happens? Shit, Not because you're weak, but because your environment wasn't prepared. It wasn't prepared. So another question, what do you intend to do but never structure into your day? What do you intend to do but never structure into your day? Like in a real way? What do you intend to do? You know, we intend to do these things. What do you intend to do but never structure into your day? And if you can answer that right, that's your gap. That's your gap because you intend to do something, but you never structure it into your day. It's not about motivation it's about structure. So you don't necessarily lack the motivation, and that's the problem. You lack the structure and that's the problem. So you intend to do something, but never structure it into your day. Like I intend to go to bed early. I never structure going to bed early into my day. So guess what never fucking happens. I never go to bed early. And when I never go to bed early, I don't get up at four point thirty like I want to, you feel me, or like I intend to. Yeah, structure creates focus. Focus is not a mystical thing. Focus just don't you just lie then all of a sudden and there's focus. You feel me, You don't drink mushroom coffee, and all of a sudden it's focused, Like, oh I get my mushroom coffee. All I take my I take my I forgot what you're supposed to take for focus? You know what I mean? You take your fucking lion's main and you take your shit in there. All of a sudden, you're just locked in from focus. Focus is created, it's created, and it's created by structure. Focus isn't created in a moment. Focus is created in advance. You never thought about it like that. I'm sure some motherfuckers. I never thought about it like that until I did. Focus is not created in a moment. It's created in advance, before the day starts. You feel me, before the day starts, before distractions appear, before pressure starts to build up. Structure removes your decision fatigue. Structure reduces confusion. Structure eliminates hesitation period. Look at tharb and glow with Joe. She said, I I'm drinking my muffroom mushroom coffee now, Mook underscore what's up with your homies? Salute to you, Lola D said, Crispy, just lie down and listen to Appllation Mountain real horror stories. You'll doze off, but they're entertaining. Uh, Appalation horror stories, I D. I can't think of nothing that I'd rather I'd rather do less lay down, lie down and listen to Appalachian Mountain real horror stories. That's what you just told me to do with, Lady. You'll doze off, but they're entertaining. No, no, no, If I want to doze off, I'm know what I listened to. I listen to. I rather listen to Leena Horn or or or or fucking I go to sleep to judge matthis or something. You see what I'm saying. I'm not listening to no appalation horror stories like you are you are, you are. You're sick in the head, lady, So listen to me, y'all, And I need you to get this in your spirit, because I'm literally about to go and I'm gonna be I'm gonna be boo gone, yeah, cause King Vonnie she wants me to go. She want to give me bring me nightmares. Man, you think I wanna? I want to Like if I listen to appalation horror stories, man, I'm gonna go to sleep and have nightmares like the uh uh what is that called the Deliverance? You feel me? Uh? The heels have eyes? You know. I'll be driving off through the Appalation mountains. Man, I'm gonna be having nightmares of a barefoot appellations with coveralls, chasing me through the damn chasing me through the damn woods. And shit, Man, I ain't she tripping talking about uh appllation horror stories? Real life mentain story? What are you crazy? Lady? Oh? God, Kia is a You're a. Kia's a She's a writer, though, so that'd be inspiration for her. That shit ain't inspirational to me. I don't need no applation horror stories, you feel me, I'd rather I'll be watching a king Pin. I be watching king Pin stories like I be they you know what I'm saying, Like I'm be watching I'll be watching stories about king Pins from West Dayton and shit like that, Like you know what I mean? Appellation, Nah, man, I'm cool. Here's the powerful truth. Focus happens when decisions are made ahead of time. Did you hear that? Let me get closer. Focus happens when decisions are made ahead of time. Focus happens when decis visions are made ahead of time. People think I'm crazy, But like people stress about work and getting things done at work, and I always say, well, do you have blocks of time schedule? That's one of my professional practices. And that's one of the things that I tell when I do leadership trainings and so on and so forth. When I interact with leaders at these respective organizations, I say, hey, man, you have to schedule time ahead of time. Do you have time scheduled ahead of time? You gotta schedule blocks to actually do work, especially like a good day. It's like Friday, Like don't take no meetings on Fridays for those of you all that can control it, but you have to schedule hour blocks three hours, two hours, three hours, four hour blocks where you allow yourself to actually do work other than that you gonna meet to death, you feel me. Focus happens when decisions are made ahead of time, not in the moment, ahead of time, and that's why systems matter, not ideas, not intentions. Systems. So let me break down, in my opinion, what structure looks like. It looks like time blocks, define priorities, protected hours, clear routines, repeatable actions, not guessing, not drifting, only executing. Because without structure, every moment becomes negotiable. If you don't have structure, every moment is negotiable. So if you're not structured, somebody can come up and say do you have a minute, and now it's negotiable because you don't have structure. Whereas if somebody came up and you were structured, you could say, no, I don't have a minute right now, working on X, Y and Z, and you can stop taking impromptu meetings, stop getting pulled in different directions, so on and so forth. Every moment becomes negotiable when you don't have structure, and when everything is negotiable, guess what gets done? Y'all tell me in the chat. When everything is negotiable, guess what gets done. I'm literally gonna wait on y'all to answer. When everything is negotiable, guess what gets done? Nothing? Nothing, nothing, nothing at slutely nothing gets done. Nothing gets done. When everything is negotiable. Nothing gets done. Kid, where's my bar meter? Somebody kill somebody bring that bar meter. When everything is negotiable, nothing is done. I just spoke something crazy to myself. I just that just spoke to me. When everything is negotiable, nothing gets done, y'all. Nothing, nothing is done. When everything is negotiable, nothing gets done Without structure. Every moment becomes negotiable. When you don't have structure, Every single moment becomes negotiable. And when everything is negotiable, nothing get is done. We talked heavy about drifting yesterday. Let's talk about it again because this is where most people live. This is where most people live, not intentionally, just unconsciously. Drifting looks like, once again, reacting instead of planning. Scrolling instead of executing, moving instead of progressing, and drifting creates the illusion of effort. It creates the illusion of effort. You feel busy, but you accomplish very little. You feel tired but not fulfilled. You understand what I'm saying, Like, y'all go to work. We go to work every day. We spend hours, the majority of our day at work, and we come home tired and deplete it from work, but then we get behind on work. You feel me Like you go to work every day. This is I'm talking about, This is commonplace, Like, this is our lives. You feel me, these are our lives. You go to work, you spend the majority of your waking hours at work. You come home depleteed from work, and we get behind on work. We're busy, but we accomplish very little. You feel tired but not fulfilled. Here's an uncomfortable truth. Excuse me. Busyness without structure creates exhaustion without progress. How's that one, kid? Busyness without structure creates exhaustion without progress. Busyness without structure creates exhaustion without progress. And that's why people feel stuck. Not because life is too hard. Shut the fuck up. Not because life is too hard. It's because life is too sructured. Motherfucker. Yeah yeah, yeah, life is not hard. Your life is unstructured. So here's the hard question. What part of your life has no structure right now? What part of your life has no structure right now? Is it work? Is it health? Is it your time? Is it your sleep? Is it your finances? Is it all of the above? What part of your life has no structure right now? I told y'all, I'm not concerned about your feelings. Fuck your feelings. We gotta get better. We gotta get better. Life is not hard. Shut the fuck up. It's not hard. It's unstructured. Your life is unstructured. You feel me. We unstructured. We unstructured right now in the chat, I'm sitting here giving y'all life changing shit. You motherfucker's in here talking about the Appalachian Mountains. We didn't he reil the conversation, y'all not even lock it in or what we're talking about. And then you wonder why your life is unstructured, and you wonder why you can't get the things that you're trying to get done done. I don't care about your feelings. We gotta get better. Fuck your feelings, we gotta get better. Fuck the distractions, we gotta get better. Like we gotta get better. You feel me? What part of your life is unstructured right now? Is it work? Is it health? Is it time? Is it sleep? Is it finances? I'm not here to fuck around because it's all of those apply to me. All of them apply to me. I'm not here to fuck around. I ain't got no time to be bullshitting, you feel me? Where is structured? Missing? Focus disappears every time? Wherever you have you are missing structure in your life. Focus disappears. You gotta build systems that work. So let's get practical before I go. And I'm gonna lead all to your appellation horror stories. You feel me. I ain't got time for the bullshit today. I got shit to do. So let's get practical, because this is where transformation actually happens. You don't fix focus by thinking harder, because that's what you think. You think you fix your focus by thinking harder. No, you fix focus by building structure. And this is where I would start, or where I have started. I'll say, you define your non negotiables, not your hopes, not your wishes standards. Your wake up time, What time are you gonna get your ass up out the bed? Your work time? What times are you dedicated to working or sleep time? What time are you gonna get your ass back in the bed. Your execution time? What times are you gonna be executing? Non negotiable? Non negotiable means And when I say, I told y'all, I say these things, y'all gotta push on me, Like, what do I mean when I say non negotiable? Non negotiable means that shit happens, no matter what it happens, no matter what it happens, no matter what. You gotta define your non negotiables. One number two, You gotta block your priorities. Not everything. Everything doesn't deserve a block in your life. Everything don't deserve a block. Not everything. You gotta block your priorities. The important things, the things that move your life forward. You have to schedule them, you have to protect them, you have to honor them. The things that are important. You have to block your priorities. Not everything ain't a damn priority. The important things, the things that move your life forward. I say, the important things, Junior, what other important things? The important things are the things that move your life forward. You schedule them, you protect them, you honor them. Number three, you gotta reduce decision fatigue. I really wish I was locked into this conversation because this is the news. You really could use. Shuit out, Shout out to my cousin, legendary top cast, like, this is the shit that I'm talking. Whatever, Let me finish talking so I can get on with my day. Reduce decision fatigue, same routines, same structure, same order less guessing, more execution, Reduce decision fatigue. How do you just the reduced decision fatigue Junior? By having routines, the same routines, same structure, same order less guessing. You have a hard time. A hard time for me, it's dinner time, having to figure out what's for dinner. How are we gonna do dinner? What are we having for dinner? That's decision fatigue. An easy thing for me is when I'm clicking and clacking and everything is running like a well oiled machine. Then we have meal preps already done. We've had meals prepared. Some of the most productive times in my life. I actually did meal preps on Sunday while I cooked the meals for the entire week. Less guessing, more execution. So number three was reduced decisions fatigue. Number four is repeat daily, not perfectly, not perfectly, We're gonna have some falloffs, but consistently. Systems grow stronger with repetition, not inspiration. Not worried about your inspiration. Systems grow stronger with repetition, with repetition. With every system you put in place, you have to repeat. Yeah, sorry at the end of the day. You don't struggle with focus because you're lazy. We struggle with focus because our life is negotiable. Oh you don't struggle kid, where we at? Kre where we at with the meter. You don't struggle with focus because you're lazy. It's not lazy. You don't struggle with focus because you're lazy. You struggle with focus because your life has become negotiable. Your whole entire life is negotiable. That's why you struggle with focus. Too many open doors, to many loose decisions, too many open conversations, too many unprotected priorities. But once you build a system, something changes, like your clarity improves, your execution increases, your confidence builds, not because you feel better, but because you operate better. Yeah, because you operate better. So this is the this is the question for you to take with you. What system does your life need right now? I see a lot of these was talking about her finances. What system does? What system does your life need right now, not next week, not next month, today? What system does your life need right now? Yeah? Because at the end of the day, man, the truth is simple. You don't lack focus. You lack systems. You or I'll say a system. You don't lack focus, You lack a system. And once you build a system, focus is gonna come. It has to. Hey man, salute y'all. This is the Black Coffee Club. Man. Hey around here, man, we ain't waiting to feel ready. We locked in and in Kia Allen's voice, we ain't fucking around man, I'm not here to fuck around no more. We gotta get better and we gotta get better today. We gotta get better today. No more bullshitting. We gotta get better. We gotta get better today. This has brought to you by the Black Gentleman Grooming Company. 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