Focus is important to have, and your enemy knows that.
This is why, daily, you are to either absorb a ridiculous amount of unverified information, and/or accept the equally dismal alternative of "trusted sources" in the corporate media.
Both often utilize fear based tactics and applied group-think to sell their lies.
The reality is simple though: analytical reasoning skills, and carefully testing each piece of information will always guide you infinitely better than blind trust or confusion.
Learn to settle in and study. Dont make excuses. Skip a tv show, and study. Skip drinking with friends, study. Etc etc etc. Proper time management and practice help.
I worked as an intelligence analyst for many years, and the bulk of my job was to read report after report, carefully dissecting the information within, and compiling it into more comprehensible and complete forms to pass up the chain of command.
This is a skill any of you can gain. It simply involves being slower to the jump, trying for accuracy rather than speed; and maintaining a proper focus on sourcing information to its zero-point (who, what, where when, and why was it said/written/reported)
As good as an influx of information is, we are only as strong as we are accurate. And our group opinions will be judged by the weakest factor by our enemies, therefore it serves your best interests to encourage this behavior in one another and to practice it yourselves.
Proper focus should give attention to producing results over issues. Measurable goals should be set, and information should be properly utilized. Otherwise it is simply noise.