While I was thinking and preparing for the new year 2015, I kept hearing one word – focus. That’s one thing most people find hard to do in this day and age. Everything around you is calling for your attention. Whatever gets your attention gets your mind. The marketing executives know this and they are profiting heavily on this simple principle.
It would be difficult to see or discover what you are not looking for with the massive amount of information available at the tip of our fingers today. It may end up causing distraction rather than productivity. Focus is what translates information into great results. The best way focus works is to target one area of your life at a time. You will be amazed what you can achieve, changes or improvement you can make if you focus on one area for the next three months.
Learning to focus is a mental exercise. That’s why only few attempt it. It takes a great deal of disciplining your mind to pay attention to what’s most important. Don’t just focus, focus on what’s most important to your journey, purpose and goal. Not only is it important to be focused, you need to stay focused. Losing your focus for a moment or season can cause more damage than the price you need to pay to stay focused. Focus on the vital few, rather than the trivial many.
In this age of constant information, the ability to focus is increasingly diminishing with distractions everywhere you turn. That’s one battle we all have to fight and win otherwise, we will not reach our full potential in life. Cameras, binoculars, microscopes – their functionality and performance begin and end with focus. Let your actions be focused and deliberate. You can’t drift to the top, it’s not going to happen. It’s time to get the cameras out!
