In the wake of Saturday night’s draw with Essendon, the Lions jumped over Adelaide and into fifth place with three home and away rounds remaining.
But Voss warned that his side could only keep a short-term perspective.
“You can tend to look too far ahead at this point in time,” he said.
“You look at the ladder, and where you sit, and who you’re playing against and who should lose and who should win, but that’s not for us, that’s for the punters.
“We have to live in the moment. We can’t afford to look past the next contest let alone the next game.
“We can’t be about what we’ve done, we have to be about what we’ve got to do.”
After a Daniel Bradshaw goal after the siren salvaged a draw, the Lion coach said his side had worked too hard to fall away at the business end of the season.
“We’re fighting for our lives at the back end of the year. When I say our lives, it is that chance to finish off our season well and finish where you need to be and what you’ve worked hard for.
“We’ve worked really, really hard as a group.”
Voss said despite the hollow feeling of the draw he was happy to leave the current system in place and not play extra time to decide a winner.
And he said that regardless of the result he said he would have been unhappy with the side’s performance.
“There’s certain standards that we have I don’t think we reached those,” he said.
“While we got the two points, we certainly didn’t play anywhere near our best. When you don’t play your best you always walk away with that hollow feeling whether you win or lose.
“I thought we went away from some of our roles. We’ve shown a pretty good discipline across the year to play a role within the team and I think that we went away from those at different times.”
Voss said next week’s game against the fourth-placed Bulldogs was critical but indicated that his side had to improve to compete with such an accomplished side.
“We didn’t stand for what we want to stand for as a group [tonight],” he said.
“For us to go further, if we hope to, there’s some things we can’t compromise on.”
